Daren Iott
Senior Software Engineer at Upbound
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaren Iott is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend and cloud-native systems, currently focusing on Upbound Cloud and Crossplane contributions. He brings a strong background in distributed systems and Go, having architected Ethereum data mining, a 0x relayer and a mobile Ethereum wallet at DESS.io, and modernized Crossplane core APIs and provider code. His career spans everything from mobile and REST service architecture at Thomson Reuters to cloud provider integrations and dependency hardening for the AWS Crossplane provider. Comfortable from low-level API conversion logic to operator-style cloud control planes, he blends practical production experience with open-source stewardship on a widely used project. Based in Michigan, he pairs rigorous academic training with a propensity for solving cross-process, distributed problems and a history of shipping end-to-end systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.89, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.89 at Hawaii Pacific UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.7, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.7 at University of Michigan-Dearborn
English
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
crossplane10
controller10
cloud-infrastructure10
controls10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
control-systems10
cloud-services10
cloud-native10
dependency-management9
terraform9
terraformer9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Daren contributed to the Crossplane project by adding and modifying function types, implementing conversion code, and fixing related issues. Their work primarily focused on the `apis/pkg/meta/v1alpha1` package, indicating involvement in the core functionality related to functions. They were involved in deepcopy generation, conversion logic, and linting procedures within the repository. This suggests a strong focus on internal API design and ensuring the stability of core components.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
crossplane-contrib/provider-upjet-aws
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
AWS Provider for Crossplane.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daren contributed to the AWS Provider for Crossplane, focusing on updates and fixes to the codebase. They updated dependencies in `go.mod`, including the addition of a Kong dependency and upgrades to AWS SDK versions. The user also addressed checks and fixed issues related to dependencies and the UpDoc generator.
providerterraform-modulesterraformawsterraform-module
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