Darrell Anderson
Software Engineer at Self
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarrell Anderson is an experienced software engineer based in Palo Alto with eight years of professional experience and a long history of building scalable, performance-sensitive systems dating back to Google and Digital Equipment. He combines deep systems and distributed-systems expertise—authoring high-performance storage engines and large-scale service architectures—with hands-on mobile product work, including co-founding Plumzi to deliver featured interactive Android storytelling apps. His background spans startup founding, contract engineering, and entrepreneurial product design, and he’s contributed to technologies that led to acquisitions and earned Google’s Founders' Award twice. Notably, he designed a failure-atomic, write-heavy storage layer with orders-of-magnitude performance gains and has implemented low-level networking defenses and routing research earlier in his career. He holds advanced graduate training in computer science from Duke and brings a practical blend of research rigor and product-focused engineering. Based in Silicon Valley, he continues to freelance while focusing on mobile (especially Android) and systems-level challenges.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Duke UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (4)
lua9
scripting6
map-generator2
generator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TI4-Online/TI4-Online.github.io
Nov 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
darrellanderson/CrLua
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Tabletop Simulator lua utilities
Contributions:64 reviews, 1529 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 1 month
lua
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