Darren Deridder
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDarren Deridder is a Staff Software Engineer in Ottawa with 15 years of experience building real-time systems, cloud microservices, mobile and web applications, and telecom/network solutions. He leads engineering efforts at Zendesk on the Sunshine Conversations engine and has a track record of delivering high-performance processing—implementing coverage processing at Metrics that was orders of magnitude faster than competitors. A practical technical leader and inventor, Darren holds multiple patents and has presented work at Black Hat and Mobile World Congress, blending security research with product-focused engineering. He founded and organizes Ottawa JavaScript, mentors startups, teaches gifted students, and values minimalist API and software design that makes complex systems easy to understand. Outside of code he pursues piano, sailing and mountaineering, reflecting a preference for discipline and precision both in engineering and life.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. Computer Systems w. High Distinction, Engineering, B.Eng. Computer Systems w. High Distinction, Engineering at Carleton University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (122)
package-control10
jslint10
testing10
test-framework10
classifier10
pypy10
audio-player10
javascript10
sublime-text10
snap10
browser10
audio10
mochajs10
rotate10
bdd10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
73rhodes/node-opentoken
Oct 2014 - Aug 2020
OpenToken support for Node.JS
Contributions:34 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 11 months
node-jsjavascriptnodejs
73rhodes/node-python
Jul 2011 - Jul 2022
Communicate with a long-running Python child process from NodeJS.
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 years 2 months
pythoncommunicatepython-3nodejslong
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