Dj Patterson
Staff Engineer at Shopify
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDj Patterson is a Staff Engineer based in the UK with 13 years building resilient full‑stack systems, currently driving payments and money platform work at Shopify after leading payments at Ticketmaster. He specializes in Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems—Rails, React, Redux, Ember and GraphQL—comfortable across monoliths and microservices and known for clean, well‑tested code. His career spans product-facing engineering and technical leadership, owning local payment methods, fraud, billing and cross-team integrations. An active contributor to front-end tooling, he enhanced a widely used Bootstrap datetimepicker with timezone support and cross‑browser fixes. Dj combines hands‑on development with mentoring experience and a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, maintainable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Kingston UniversityA Levels, I.T, Geography, Resistant Materials, A Levels, I.T, Geography, Resistant Materials at Coombe Sixth FormGCSE's, GCSE's at Rutlish
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
bootstrap10
datetimepicker10
bootstra10
rubygems9
zone9
ruby9
stripe-payments9
componets9
ruby-on-rails9
routes9
timezone9
nokogiri9
html8
css8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smalot/bootstrap-datetimepicker
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Both Date and Time picker widget based on twitter bootstrap (supports Bootstrap v2 and v3)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dj focused on enhancing the functionality and options of the date and time picker widget. Their contributions include adding timezone support, which involved modifying the format and parsing logic. They also addressed issues related to time display and date parsing, along with fixing bugs. These changes aimed to improve the widget's flexibility and cross-browser compatibility.
widgetdatepickertime-pickerdatetime-pickertwitter
davidpatters0n/bootstrap-datetimepicker
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 49 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 6 months
widgettime-pickertwitterpickerbootstrap
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