Darren Ferguson
Software Engineer at M.C. Dean, Inc.
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Ferguson is a versatile software engineer with 11+ years of experience building full-stack systems and a recent focus on mobile development, particularly iOS with some Android work. He excels at designing systems from the ground up and at improving existing codebases through thoughtful refactoring and extension. Comfortable across languages and frameworks—from Cocoa, Objective-C/Swift ecosystems and Cocoapods to Node.js, Erlang, Java/GWT and web technologies—he bridges front-end, back-end and embedded database work. At M.C. Dean he has delivered production software while also contributing to the developer community as a writer and technical editor for RayWenderlich.com, distilling complex iOS topics into practical tutorials. He brings a pragmatic troubleshooting mindset: able to read unfamiliar code, find answers quickly, and apply improvements that reduce technical debt. Based in Ashburn, VA, he pairs a formal BSc in Applied Computing with hands-on experience across startups and enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Applied Computing, BSc Hons Applied Computing at University of Dundee
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Github Skills (48)
server-side10
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
combine10
macos10
swift10
cocoapods10
swiftui10
testing9
http9
app-architecture9
linting9
carthage9
data-structures8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
darren102/DTFLogger
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 39 pushes, 20 tags in 11 months
darren102/DTFAutomaticCellHeight
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
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