Dan Petitt
Engineering Manager at PA Media
East Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Petitt is an experienced engineering manager and product-minded full-stack developer with 12 years of modern professional experience and a career stretching back to award-winning Amiga and PC products. He blends hands-on expertise in C#/ASP.NET, Node.js, TypeScript, SQL databases and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) with a history of founding Digiguide.tv and leading engineering teams through product delivery and microservices-era modernisation. Known for empathising deeply with end users, he converts usability insight into polished B2B and B2C product experiences and has collaborated on academic usability research since the 1990s. At PA Media he drives outcomes over output, coaches high-performing squads, and has represented employees at the executive level to improve communication and remove blockers. Comfortable across disciplines—from low-level C++ systems to SaaS architecture—he has a pragmatic focus on keeping projects on track while ensuring engineers are used to their strengths.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Woodroffe School, Lyme RegisBTEC HND Computer Studies, BTEC HND Computer Studies at Coventry University
English
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
bmp10
balloon10
camera10
api10
draw10
net-library10
gif10
png10
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azure-pipelines10
azure-devops10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
danpetitt/changelog-file-generator
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Generates a changelog based on previous tagged release and the commits made since then
Contributions:10 releases, 42 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
changelogcommitsrelease-notescontinuous-integrationprevious
danpetitt/DBSync
Nov 2013 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 5 years 8 months
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