About Alex Patterson

Alex Patterson is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Sanity.io, Founder and Host of CodingCat.dev, Google Developer Expert (GDE), and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. At Sanity, he partners with enterprise organizations to design structured Content Operating Systems, event-driven Sanity Functions, and compiled Context Knowledge Bases served over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Through CodingCat.dev, Alex has published hundreds of full-stack tutorials and interviewed the creators of the modern web stack, mentoring developers worldwide. Alex began his engineering career building mission-critical SAP ABAP and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for global office furniture manufacturers after studying Computer Science and Business at Western Michigan University (WMU). That foundation in rigorous enterprise data modeling shapes how he approaches developer relations and AI engineering today: treating organizational canon as structured, human-governed data rather than unstructured markdown blobs. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alex is a frequent keynote and workshop speaker at Google Developer Summits, regional developer conferences, and enterprise architecture forums.