Darren Kattan
Creator
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Kattan is a Baton Rouge–based creator and technologist with eight years of focused software engineering experience and a longer history in electronics design and hardware. He runs ImmyBot and co-leads Immense Networks, delivering enterprise-class hosted services and rapid IT troubleshooting tailored for small businesses. Technically comfortable across PowerShell and C#, he has contributed stability and configurability improvements to the widely used PowerShell Editor Services project, including safer null handling and customizable module paths. His background in PCB layout, microcontroller and CPLD programming gives him an uncommon full-stack hardware-to-software perspective. Known for rapid emergency response and pragmatic automation, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded service delivery.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeHoly CrossBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (7)
powershell10
language-server-protocol10
debug9
debugging9
testing8
dotnet-core8
csharp8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
A common platform for PowerShell development support in any editor or application!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 6 commits, 30 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the PowerShell Editor Services. Their work focused on addressing potential null reference exceptions, such as handling null values in settings and profile objects. They also optimized the loading of PSReadLine and enhanced the configuration to allow for a custom bundled module path, improving testability and user flexibility. Additionally, the user introduced a feature to disable the debug service when desired.
windowspowershellintellisensedebuggerlanguage-server
dkattan/PowerShellEditorServices
May 2020 - Mar 2024
A common platform for PowerShell development support in any editor or application!
Contributions:8 PRs, 218 pushes, 30 branches in 3 years 11 months
common-platformpowershellwindows
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