Daniel Stone
Lead Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Stone is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack systems across Python, Android, and web technologies. Now at Palantir, he progressed from Forward Deployed Engineer to lead, bringing practical product-facing engineering and systems design experience from video conferencing and real-time services at Pexip. A Durham Computer Science graduate, he pairs strong backend skills (async Python, microservices, Redis, Postgres) with polished frontend work—evident in open-source contributions like Raycast extensions and an Android material-about library. He moves quickly in new codebases, writes thorough tests, and has a track record of shipping production features and libraries that improve developer UX. Colleagues would notice his blend of pragmatic system thinking and attention to UI detail, plus an appetite for integrating external APIs and tooling into smooth user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Durham UniversityReading School
Github Skills (25)
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typescript10
ui-design10
java10
standard-library10
javas10
uid10
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front-end-development10
android10
typescript-types10
c-library10
common-library10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-stoneuk/material-about-library
Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
Makes it easy to create beautiful about screens for your apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 251 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the development of an Android library designed for creating about screens. They added new UI elements like title items, modified the adapter to incorporate them, and added functionality such as setting click actions to these elements. The commits focused on UI component enhancements and included updates to the demo application to showcase the new features. They also removed some instances of Hungarian notation, cleaned up code, and added several convenience methods to simplify development.
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raycast/extensions
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 14 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the development of extensions for the Raycast platform. Their work included implementing new features for existing extensions, such as the Change Case and Semantic Scholar extensions, and creating new extensions like the Gitignore generator. They also focused on improving the user interface, adding actions, and refining the overall user experience through changes to the UI and better integration with external tools like BibTeX generators. In addition to the frontend work, they made contributions to the backend aspects of the extensions, including the logic for fetching data and interacting with external APIs.
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