Darren Hill
St. Staff Software Engineer at Veracross
Village of Walton, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Hill is a seasoned St. Staff Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience and a strong track record of leading architecture and scalability efforts for mission-critical financial and education platforms. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript (Vue 3/React), and high-performance SQL tuning, having optimized large reporting pipelines and pushed 95% of queries to sub-100ms response times. Darren combines deep back-end expertise—distributed services, Sidekiq, OpenSearch, Kubernetes—with pragmatic front-end improvements like accessible Tailwind-based components to deliver end-to-end improvements in reliability and UX. He’s known for cost-conscious engineering decisions (e.g., replacing ElasticSearch with bespoke solutions) and for mentoring teams through major upgrades and tech debt cleanups. Based in Walton, NY, he continues to explore Go, Rust, and AI prompting, pairing curiosity with a long history of stabilizing and scaling complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechA.A. and A.S. Computer Science, A.A. and A.S. Computer Science at St. Petersburg CollegeDiploma, Diploma at Allentown High School
vue 3, html, css, javascript, ruby on rails
Github Skills (13)
sage10
component-library10
react10
ui-components9
tla3
mason3
refactor2
cli2
prototyping2
tooling2
code-coverage1
continuous-integration1
coverage1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshdchap/juliet_stripe_demo
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 comments in 1 day
Sage/carbon
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Carbon by Sage | ReactJS UI Component Library
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
reactjs-uireactsagewebcomponentsui-component
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