Daniel Papenburg
Barista at Scooter's Coffee
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Papenburg is a passionate software practitioner with a decade of hands-on experience applying programming skills across personal, community, and professional projects. Though currently working as a barista in Fargo, ND, his background includes FoxPro database development, regulatory-compliant application work, IT help-desk support, and parts management roles that demonstrate practical problem-solving in diverse environments. He has contributed to open-source game-server tooling as a back-end developer, fixing mission/quest logic and improving maintainability in the Darkstar FFXI emulator. Comfortable moving between scripting small automations and refactoring larger systems, Daniel emphasizes maintainable code and steady learning. His career shows a blend of customer-facing roles and deep technical maintenance, revealing an engineer who thrives on incremental improvements and real-world impact. Unfinished formal studies in computer engineering complement a long track record of self-driven skill growth and applied software work.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
unfinished, Computer Engineering, unfinished, Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lee-Scott Academy
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Github Skills (8)
lua10
debug10
game-development10
sql9
refactoring9
database-management8
excel6
vba6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DarkstarProject/darkstar
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
DEPRECATED - FFXI Server Emulator - See Project Topaz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on fixing bugs and implementing features related to the game's quest and mission systems. Their work included resolving global name conflicts in Lua scripts, adding functionality to quest-related commands, and refactoring code to improve maintainability through the use of functions. The user also addressed a database bug in the conquest system and corrected a typo in a script file.
emulatorffxiserver-emulatortopaz
DFPercush/xfer
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
A secure file transfer command over TCP/IP without the hassle of setting up a full server or file sharing. Host or connect, send or receive.
Contributions:5 releases, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 2 months
securehostsettingfile-sharingsharing
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