Summary
Darrel Portzline is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling agile teams and enterprise applications, currently serving as Director of Software Development at DriveTime. He progressed from hands-on software engineer to manager and director roles across retail and insurance tech, consistently focusing on empowered, small teams that deliver measurable outcomes. Darrel blends full-stack .NET and web application experience with a strong emphasis on team coaching, delivery cadence, and cross-team collaboration. He has led multiple teams through agile transformations at Willis Towers Watson and DriveTime, bringing practical delivery frameworks rather than theoretical process overhead. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he pairs a Computer Science background from Indiana University with a bias for shipping clean, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bloomington High School North
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Associate's Degree Computer Science, Associate's Degree Computer Science at Salt Lake Community College
English, Hungarian