Dylan Beattie
Chief Everything Officer at Ursatile
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDylan Beattie is a seasoned software consultant, developer and international keynote speaker with over 15 years building data-driven web applications and leading engineering teams from startup to scale. As Chief Everything Officer at Ursatile and former CTO of Skills Matter, he specialises in translating business strategy into pragmatic API and distributed-system designs while coaching organisations through cultural and technical change. He has deep, hands-on experience across C#, JavaScript, SQL and HTTP/REST, and contributes to open-source projects—most notably as a back-end contributor to the Rockstar programming language he created, which blends code and performance art. Dylan’s long tenure at Spotlight gave him rare longitudinal insight into how architecture, hiring and Conway’s Law shape real-world codebases. A Microsoft MVP and University of Southampton computer science graduate, he combines technical authority with a flair for musical comedy and public speaking that makes complex topics memorable.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science with Image and Multimedia Systems Computer Science, BSc Computer Science with Image and Multimedia Systems Computer Science at University of Southampton
Stackoverflow
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146questions
sql
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http-post
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character-encoding
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console-application
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Github Skills (38)
programming-language10
checkbox10
post10
asp-net-mvc10
winforms10
interpreter10
http-post10
tooltip10
iframe10
language-design10
parsing10
html10
error-handling10
text-parsing10
vbscript10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
RockstarLang/rockstar
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Home of the Rockstar programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 257 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the development of the Rockstar programming language by adding and modifying parser and interpreter code. Their contributions included implementing support for new language features like string multiplication, nested functions, and array/list operations, as well as fixing bugs in flow control and return value handling. They also refactored and cleaned up existing code within the parser and interpreter modules.
programming-language
ursatile/css4eng
Jul 2025 - Mar 2026
CSS for Engineers
Contributions:541 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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