Darby Hadley
Software Quality Manager at Holistiplan
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarby Hadley is a Software Quality Manager with 10 years of progressive QA leadership across gaming, analytics, and fintech-adjacent products, now based in Austin, Texas. They have led teams at companies from Zynga and id Software to RStudio PBC and Monument, focusing on improving people, processes, and product reliability. Known for translating developer intent into measurable quality outcomes, Darby combines hands-on testcraft with program-level strategy to reduce risk and accelerate delivery. Their background in Arts & Technology and Computer Science gives them a creative, user-centered perspective on testing and automation. Darby often brings lessons from fast-paced game QA—rapid iteration, exploratory testing, and cross-discipline communication—into broader software organizations. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic coach who builds repeatable quality practices that scale with growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Arts & Technology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Arts & Technology at The University of Texas at DallasComputer Science, Computer Science at Angelo State University
Github Skills (38)
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rstudio-server9
rmarkdown8
literate-programming8
dplyr8
odbc8
dbi8
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markdown7
pandoc7
sparklyr7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dfalty/QATestRepo
Oct 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
dfalty/rstudio
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 7 months
integratedrstudiointegrated-development-environmentidedevelopment-environment
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