I think I found evidence corroborating that it was indeed Patrick who posted on Microsoft forums on Jan 27 - 3 days after the incident
The Jan 27 Microsoft forums question mere days after this incident occurred while Callan was still in the hospital on life support was chilling but we don’t know if it was actually him.
I think I found some corroborating evidence.
Note the command he’s asking about in the first screenshot ‘Get CimInstance’ this is a powershell command. Microsoft’s custom command line interface.
Note the subreddits he browsed before and after the incident: r/powerApps
He is seen in the second Reddit screenshot using PowerFX, Microsoft’s programming language for their business app building service.
He was often asking for help debugging in powerFX as seen on Reddit.
This Microsoft forums question is asking for help using powershell, both powershell and powerfx are under the Microsoft umbrella.
Powershell is used by developers and he wasn’t one, he was a sales executive learning to code with powerfx on the side for his side project.
His question on Microsoft forums is not one a developer would ask, he didn’t set the $computer variable that’s not a mistake a dev would make or need help with.
Lastly, he signed it off in a similar manner ‘any assistance will be much appreciated’
I know this doesn’t mean anything but just wanted to share