Derick Payne
Entrepreneur at Rizonesoft
South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDerick Payne is an entrepreneurial software engineer from South Africa with over a decade of hands-on experience building and marketing developer-focused tools. As founder of Rizonesoft he led product development and promotion for lightweight Windows utilities, notably contributing full-stack work to the Notepad3 editor—adding file-browsing and encryption-related enhancements. A self-described coder and geek, he blends practical engineering with a passion for learning and sharing in open-source projects. His background shows a rare combination of product ownership, low-level UI work based on Scintilla, and long-term maintenance of mature desktop software. Colleagues would call him a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers shipping useful features over chasing trends.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Point High School, Mossel Bay
Github Skills (8)
file-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
strings9
text-manipulation9
user-interface8
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rizonesoft/Notepad3
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. Notepad3 based on code from Notepad2 and MiniPath on code from metapath. Download Notepad3:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 414 commits, 196 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derick appears to be involved in the development and maintenance of a text editor, Notepad3. They have contributed to adding support for the MiniPath file browser plugin, which suggests a focus on enhancing the application's file management capabilities. Moreover, the commits include code modifications that improve the overall functionality, and address various areas such as encryption features.
tilesetace-editornotepadscintillametapath
rizonesoft/Resolute
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 70 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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