Darby Frey
Staff Software Engineer at PlayStation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarby Frey is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with roughly two decades of experience building scalable web platforms and guiding engineering teams from startup to enterprise. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Ruby/Rails ecosystems, service-oriented architectures, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Heroku) with strong delivery skills in Agile environments. Darby has led platform and API initiatives at companies like Belly and GitLab, and recently contributed to fastlane by adding GitLab Secure Files support—demonstrating practical impact on widely used open-source release tooling. He has co-founded a company, run his own web consultancy, and repeatedly driven migrations and performance improvements across databases, search, and messaging stacks. Based in Chicago, he pairs architect-level thinking with day-to-day engineering execution, mentoring teams while still rolling up his sleeves to solve complex integration and automation problems.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
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Github Skills (11)
gitlab10
automation10
automations10
fastlane10
cicd10
ruby10
google-apps8
mobile7
ios6
google-sheets-api6
android6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fastlane/fastlane
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Darby primarily contributed to the automation and integration of GitLab Secure Files within the `fastlane` ecosystem. They implemented support for GitLab Secure Files as a Match storage mode, including error handling, access token prompts, and configuration options. Their work focused on enhancing the `fastlane` setup process by adding support for self-managed GitLab instances and addressing API limits.
fastlaneandroid-appsappsdeploymentreact-native
darbyfrey/rdio-service
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
rest-apiapirestfulrdio
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