Darren Dao
Principal Software Engineer at Intuit
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Dao is a Principal Software Engineer based in California with 16 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across large enterprises and research organizations. Currently at Intuit, he focuses on architectural and delivery excellence, mentoring teams and driving cloud-native engineering practices. His open-source contributions to cloud-custodian show a practical bent for cloud security and governance—adding AWS API Gateway custom domain support, TLS checks/remediations, and EFS/EBS security features. Darren’s background spans NASA JPL research systems to consumer platforms, giving him a rare mix of rigorous engineering discipline and product-focused pragmatism. He holds an MS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of San Diego and consistently brings security-first thinking to infrastructure and backend development.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMS Computer Science & Engineering, MS Computer Science & Engineering at University of San Diego
Github Skills (15)
it-security10
engine10
aws10
cloud-computing10
python10
api-gateway10
rule-engine10
security10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
compliance8
serverless7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Darren contributed to the development of AWS API Gateway custom domain resources by adding a new resource type and actions for updating security policies. They implemented filters to check TLS versions and actions to remediate them. Furthermore, the user introduced functionalities related to Elastic File System (EFS) security, specifically focusing on secure transport policies. The user also implemented EBS snapshot creation with descriptions.
gcpquery-filterserverlesscompliancecloud-security
darrendao/muzik
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 21 days
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