Darren Felton
Software Engineer at Lokion
Emily, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Felton is a software engineer and Adobe Commerce architect with a decade of experience designing and operating high-traffic Magento/Adobe Commerce platforms and the integrations around them. He combines deep PHP and systems engineering skills—spanning MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Varnish, CI/CD, Ansible and edge/network configuration—to deliver scalable, maintainable eCommerce solutions. Darren has led migrations, built robust data pipelines (including custom fixes to the Magento Data Migration Tool) and architected developer workflows that empower junior engineers while reducing operational toil. He excels at untangling legacy complexity and aligning architecture with long-term business goals, often anticipating scale issues before they surface. Based in Emily, Minnesota, he balances hands-on technical leadership with a practical automation-first mindset and a personal interest in the outdoors and gaming.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming AAS, It, English, Math, Psychology, Computer Programming AAS, It, English, Math, Psychology at Saint Cloud Technical CollegeNew London-Spicer High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
data-migration10
php10
sql10
database-design10
magento10
mysql9
html9
jquery-selectors6
api6
attribute6
layout6
jquery6
redirect6
sorting6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
magento/data-migration-tool
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Magento Data Migration Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 46 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darren focused on resolving data migration issues within the Magento Data Migration Tool, specifically addressing scenarios where Magento 2 Commerce was installed with the `Magento_CatalogStaging` module disabled. Their contributions involved modifying code to correctly handle differences in table structures, particularly those related to product and category data, and fixing SQL errors that arose in these situations. They implemented conditional logic to dynamically choose `entity_id` or `row_id` based on the Magento installation configuration. These changes ensured that migrations from commerce-to-commerce and opensource-to-commerce deployments completed successfully, even with the Catalog Staging module disabled.
magento-datadata-migrationmagento2migrationdata-migration-tool
dfelton/kobens-currency
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
Library for providing a common interface for interacting with currencies both digital and fiat.
Contributions:18 releases, 30 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 1 month
currencyfiatcurrencies
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