Daniel Morton

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

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Daniel Morton is a dedicated software engineer with over a decade of development and leadership experience, based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He blends practical C++ backend expertise with a continual learning mindset, exemplified by notable contributions to the widely used RStudio IDE—adding modern `tl::expected` integration, enhanced logging, and macOS process robustness. Comfortable leading teams and projects, he brings positive, can-do energy and a track record of shipping thoughtful, user-focused solutions. With a B.S. and M.S. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, he pairs strong academic foundations with real-world impact in open-source and commercial codebases. Colleagues rely on him to lift team performance while keeping systems maintainable and resilient.

7 years of coding experience

B.S., Information and Computer Sciences, B.S., Information and Computer Sciences at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Github Skills (7)

logging10

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

rstudio10

error-handling9

configuration-management9

macos8

Programming languages (2)

JavaC++

Github contributions (5)

rstudio/rstudio

Dec 2023 - Oct 2024

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months

Contributions summary:Daniel contributed significantly to the back-end infrastructure of the RStudio IDE. They focused on implementing and integrating the `tl::expected` library, a modern C++ feature, into the codebase. Further, they added functionality to check if a ConfigProfile value is defined and also added a new logging level (trace) and related macros to the shared core module, enhancing the logging capabilities. Lastly, the user addressed an issue related to process information retrieval on macOS, increasing the robustness of the system.

integratedrstudiointegrated-development-environmentidedevelopment-environment

dmortondev/openperf

Dec 2019 - Jun 2022

Infrastructure and application test and analysis framework

Contributions:2 PRs, 66 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 6 months

devopsinfrastructureanalysis-frameworkterraformautomation-framework

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