Duncan Paterson
Business Development Manager at KPS UK
Berlin, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDuncan Paterson is a Business Development Manager with 11 years’ experience helping organisations maximise value from digital platforms and customer-centric transformations. Based in Berlin and working across retail, B2B and D2C sectors, he specialises in aligning eCommerce, CRM, data and marketing automation to rapidly improve customer experience and engagement. He combines a consultative sales approach with hands-on delivery knowledge from roles at KPS, Gauri and multiple specialist agencies, enabling pragmatic, value-driven partnerships and high client retention. Duncan’s career spans creative production, security and recruitment environments, giving him unusual breadth in marrying technical constraints with commercial outcomes. He also contributes to open-source back-end work—improving an established XML database project—which reflects a practical interest in platform-level problems beyond pure sales. Known for translating complex technical roadmaps into prioritized, fast-win initiatives, he helps clients stay ahead of the curve while minimising implementation risk.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Brighton
Stackoverflow
723reputation
14kreached
34answers
8questions
Github Skills (15)
xquery10
xml10
xpath10
xml-database10
java9
testing9
lucene9
javas9
xslt8
application-server7
docker-volume6
http-client6
namespaces6
docker6
exist-db6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
eXist-db/exist
Oct 2014 - Apr 2022
eXist Native XML Database and Application Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 265 commits, 256 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Duncan primarily contributed to improving the eXist-db native XML database project by addressing errors and adding functionality. They fixed an error display issue within the eXide component. The user also added and modified test cases related to text analysis, specifically focusing on diacritics and character normalization in the Lucene search index. Additionally, they replaced calls to a utility module with XPath expressions within the XQTS test suite.
nosqlxml-databasexmlxprocxquery
duncdrum/documentation
Jan 2018 - Feb 2025
Documentation of eXist
Contributions:17 PRs, 124 pushes, 42 branches in 7 years 2 months
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