Darren Cooney
Senior Developer At AmercianEagle.com at Americaneagle.com
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDarren Cooney is a Senior Full-Stack Developer and engineering lead with 13 years of experience building web and WordPress-first experiences from Toronto/Whitby. He currently leads development at Americaneagle.com after heading engineering at WebDevStudios and founding Connekt Media, combining agency-grade design sensibility with scalable front-end architecture. Darren’s hands-on expertise spans Next.js headless WordPress implementations, Algolia-powered search, and complex theme/plugin development—he contributed search and code-splitting improvements to a popular Next.js WordPress starter. A former college instructor, he pairs practical mentorship with a history of leading cross-functional teams and client-facing projects. Outside of day-to-day work he maintains open-source WordPress tools like Instant Images and Ajax Load More, reflecting a focus on performance and developer-friendly integrations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design, Web, 3D graphics, Video Editing, Multimedia Design, Web, 3D graphics, Video Editing at Durham College
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
nextjs10
algolia10
react10
tailwindcss9
tailwind9
wordpress9
html6
ajax6
css6
accessibility6
php6
shortcode6
hammerjs6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter
Dec 2020 - May 2021
A headless starter for WordPress powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 141 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Darren's commits primarily focused on implementing and refactoring the Algolia search functionality within the Next.js WordPress starter project. They added a working search feature, including components for displaying search results and search history. The user further refined the search implementation with code splitting and other refactoring changes.
next-jstailwindcsswp-graphqlheadlessjotai
dcooney/wordpress-plugin-installer
May 2017 - Jan 2023
A PHP class for installing and activating WordPress plugins.
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 9 months
php-classwordpress-pluginsinstallingwordpressphp
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