Daniel Patterson
Software Engineer II at Rapid7
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Patterson is a Software Engineer II based in Belfast with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing at Rapid7. He progressed from graduate engineer to senior contributor at Anomali before joining Rapid7, demonstrating steady growth in enterprise security software. Comfortable refactoring complex codebases, he has made meaningful open-source contributions to Ghostty, improving terminal emulator behavior, keybindings, and macOS compatibility. Daniel combines practical backend focus with attention to developer ergonomics and cross-platform polish, implying strong debugging and systems-thinking skills. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Edinburgh and brings a pragmatic, improvement-oriented approach to shipping quality software.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (9)
terminal-emulator10
zig10
terminal-application10
emulation10
keybindings10
macos9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ghostty-org/ghostty
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to terminal emulator functionality. They renamed functions and updated keybindings, specifically adjusting the direction labels for split navigation. Additionally, the user addressed broken macOS changes, ensuring the correct behavior of split nodes and focus handling. Their work also included adding aliases for keybind commands, and they improved the output of keybind listings in the CLI.
dpatterbee/strife
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 90 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 6 months
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