Darren Ferguson
Chief Technology Officer at Red Marina
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDarren Ferguson is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 25 years’ experience delivering large-scale digital transformation, cloud adoption, and software engineering leadership across startups, agencies, and enterprise clients. He has founded and exited a successful Umbraco-focused consultancy, scaled teams through acquisition, and since 2023 has been providing strategic CTO-level guidance and hands-on programme delivery for Merchant Agency and long-term clients. Known for rescuing failing projects and turning complex multi-squad programmes into predictable, business-aligned outcomes, he combines board-level strategy with day-to-day delivery discipline. Darren prioritises building engineering cultures where people enjoy their work, and his track record spans connected-vehicle platforms, enterprise hosting, and repeatable managed services. Based in Stony Stratford, he operates as both a permanent executive and a trusted interim, quickly stabilising delivery while shaping long-term architecture and cloud strategy.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
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0questions
Github Skills (57)
umbraco10
content-management-system10
cms10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
headless-cms10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
azure-pipelines8
azure-devops8
asp-net-core-mvc8
dotnet7
copying7
powershell7
azure7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
darrenferguson/UmbracoAzureSearch
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:69 commits, 17 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years 6 months
darrenferguson/speedwagon
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Speedwagon is an experimental developer centric blogging tool written in .NET core.
Contributions:90 commits, 6 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 11 months
dotnetblog-engineasp-net-core-mvcnet-coreblogging
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