Summary
Darlene W is a Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks in San Jose, CA, bringing a decade of experience in backend development, automation, and tooling. Since 2021, she has led architectural and delivery initiatives at Palo Alto Networks, after serving as Senior Staff Engineer from 2016 to 2021. Her career spans Tango Me, where she built iOS build and release tooling and infrastructure; Juniper Networks, focusing on security tools; Cisco, delivering Python and C productivity tools for IOS engineering; and NearbyNow, where she worked on web crawling, ML classifiers, image processing, and data analytics. She specializes in Python-based tooling, automation, and building scalable, cross-platform systems with static analysis integration to boost engineering velocity. She holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University and a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA, reflecting a strong formal foundation paired with hands-on production leadership.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Engineering, M.S., Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
B.S., Computer Science & Engineering, B.S., Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles