Patrick Knight
Assistant Manager at Deloitte
Amsterdam, North Holland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Knight is an Assistant Manager at Deloitte London and an aspiring Chartered Accountant (SA) concurrently pursuing the CFA, bringing 11 years of professional experience in accounting and audit. He progressed internally from Senior Associate to Assistant Manager while completing postgraduate studies in Accounting Science at the University of Pretoria, demonstrating strong technical rigor and leadership potential. Based in Amsterdam and active in cross-border teams, he values integrity, teamwork, and creative problem-solving in client engagements. Beyond finance, he has contributed as a back-end developer to the JASP open-source project, implementing robust SPSS (SAV) import features including cross-platform endian handling and ICU-based encoding support. That blend of quantitative accounting expertise and practical software contribution gives him an uncommon edge in data-driven audit and analytics. He actively seeks challenges that stretch both his technical and strategic capabilities toward senior leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
St Stithians College, South AfricaUniversity of Pretoria
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
character-encoding10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
data-conversion9
cross-platform9
compatible9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jasp-stats/jasp-desktop
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
JASP aims to be a complete statistical package for both Bayesian and Frequentist statistical methods, that is easy to use and familiar to users of SPSS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 15 PRs, 32 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the SAV file importer within the JASP-desktop project. They implemented an importer for the SPSS format, including features like handling endian issues for cross-platform compatibility, particularly for ARM machines. The user also addressed code page conversion by integrating an ICU library for character encoding, improving the ability to process various character sets. Furthermore, the user incorporated progress messages and refined string processing to enhance the usability and efficiency of the importer.
statisticsfreesoftwarestatisticalaimsstatistical-methods
aknight1-uva/jasp-desktop
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 8 months
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