Darren Blum
Principal Software Engineer at Skillsoft
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Blum is a Principal Software Engineer based in Rochester, NY with over 8 years of focused professional experience and a two-decade history of delivering secure, scalable enterprise and volunteer web systems. He blends deep Java/J2EE expertise with practical knowledge of databases, identity management, and cloud migration—having led SSO/IDM initiatives at Xerox and migrated a large volunteer organization to AWS. A pragmatic technical leader and hands-on contributor, Darren has rearchitected legacy apps into modern stacks (PHP→Angular/REST, ColdFusion→PHP) and introduced ORM and CI practices to speed development. He pairs operational discipline—disaster recovery, performance tuning, PCI security remediations—with active open-source tinkering (author of SHADOW on GitHub) and long-term stewardship of the 501st Legion’s growth from 2,000 to 20,000 members. Known for turning complex integration challenges into maintainable solutions, he excels at mentoring teams and automating processes that reduce manual effort and operational risk.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at SUNY BrockportMath & Computer Science, Math & Computer Science at University at BuffaloGreece Athena
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Github Skills (7)
ajax10
http-client10
javascript10
nodejs10
xmlhttprequest10
browser10
firmware1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
knightshade23/501stLegionTrasfer
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
axios/axios
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 comment, 1 issue in 22 days
browserxmlhttprequestnode-jshttp-clientjavascript
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