Darren Black
Software Architect Lead Developer, Technical Consultant at Parse Open Source Community
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolDarren Black is a software architect and lead developer with 11 years of experience building embedded and mobile-first products, currently based in Aarhus, Denmark. He has led end-to-end software design and integration for Hopspots, an active-learning hardware+app product for schools, and pairs hands-on iOS engineering with hardware collaboration and product-minded consultancy. Darren modernised legacy iOS systems at e-conomic—introducing Swift Concurrency and CI integrations—and contributes to the Parse open-source Apple SDK, notably adding Sign in with Apple and improving Facebook integrations and tests. His background spans enterprise backend and service-bus work for large public-sector systems as well as UX and information-architecture roles, giving him a rare mix of system-level architecture and classroom-facing product design. Collectedly, he blends curiosity, mindfulness and practical engineering to deliver reliable, testable integrations between devices, apps and services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, MSc, Informatics, BSc, MSc, Informatics at Aalborg University
English, German, Danish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
objective-c10
ios10
sdk10
testing9
xctest9
uitest9
cocoapods7
xcode6
unit-testing6
build-process6
swift6
iphone6
facebook6
ui-design5
macos4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
parse-community/Parse-SDK-iOS-OSX
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
The Apple SDK for Parse Platform (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 20 reviews, 44 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to the Parse iOS SDK, focusing on updates related to Facebook integration and testing. They removed legacy code, updated tests to use newer Facebook SDK APIs, and refactored code related to Facebook login permissions. Furthermore, they incorporated Sign in with Apple functionality, including the implementation of the sign in button in the UI, related logic, and callback handling. These commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the SDK's integration with third-party services, specifically Facebook and Apple, while ensuring code quality through testing.
iosparserboltsobjective-cparse-platform
parse-community/xctoolchain
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Common configuration files and scripts that are used to build our SDKs with Xcode.
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
sdksconfiguration-filesswiftiosmacos
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