Daniel Silverstone
Fellow at Codethink
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Silverstone is a seasoned software engineer and open-source fellow with 26 years of experience, currently based in Manchester and focused on Rust, web servers, browsers, Lua, and PostgreSQL. At Codethink he has progressed through engineering and leadership roles while still contributing substantial technical work—most notably to high-profile Rust projects like rustup and gtk-rs where he improved toolchain installation, CI, and GTK bindings. A long-time Debian developer and hardware tinkerer active in Manchester Hackspace, he pairs systems design expertise with practical programmable-hardware skills. He prefers to work in the UK and prioritises meaningful, non–proof-of-work projects, reflecting a principled approach to technology choices. Not obviously, he balances hands-on engineering with selective managerial stints, indicating he chooses roles that let him keep shipping code and growing open-source ecosystems.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Open Primarily CS, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Open Primarily CS at The Open UniversityUniversity College London
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
sh10
github-ci10
gtk10
script10
rust10
shell10
front-end-development10
githubaction-workflow10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
conditional-compilation10
toolchain10
testing8
api-design8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rustup
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
The Rust toolchain installer
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:253 reviews, 868 commits, 646 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits primarily focus on maintaining the Rust toolchain installer (`rustup`). They addressed formatting issues, ensuring consistency during CI/CD processes. The user also worked on improving installation, including setting default toolchains and the handling of components and targets during installation, and updated the build system by switching to the `git-testament` crate. This included fixes for build-related issues, changes to the snap build, and updates to the test suite.
rustinstallerrustlangrust-toolchaintoolchain
gtk-rs/gtk
Apr 2020 - May 2020
DEPRECATED, use https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk3-rs repository instead!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 32 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributes to the gtk-rs/gtk repository, which provides Rust bindings for the GTK GUI library. Their work includes adding configuration flags for GDK backends, enabling conditional compilation based on these backends. They also refactored and extended the library's code by regenerating from Gir and adding support for subclassing `gtk::Socket` and `gtk::Plug`, thereby improving the library's capabilities. Furthermore, they improved the codebase's maintainability through updates to the clippy settings.
rustgtk3gtkgtk-rs
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