Darren Holland
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolDarren Holland is a postdoctoral researcher and natural products chemist with 12 years’ experience translating marine- and microbial-derived metabolites into therapeutic leads. Based in Perth, he combines deep expertise in NMR and mass-spectrometry workflows with genomic and cheminformatic approaches to elucidate biosynthetic pathways and guide compound prioritisation. His work spans academia and industry — from heterologous expression and pathway engineering to developing GMP-compatible purification methods for biosynthetic production. Darren has led structure elucidation and total synthesis efforts, contributed multiple first-author publications, and co-developed an ongoing marine pharmacology program linking field collections to early drug evaluation. Uniquely, he pairs hands-on laboratory leadership and operations management with practical engineering experience from a prior career as a senior electrician, enabling pragmatic solutions for complex experimental pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Western AustraliaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Products Chemistry | Synthetic Chemistry | Cheminformatics | DFT NMR ECD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Products Chemistry | Synthetic Chemistry | Cheminformatics | DFT NMR ECD at Griffith UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (57)
angular10
javascript10
development-kit10
aws-cdk10
aws-cloud10
aws-lambda10
typescript10
azure-functions10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cloud-development-kit10
infrastructure10
aws10
serverless-framework10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hollanddd/git-flow-sandbox
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:47 PRs, 98 pushes, 133 branches in 1 day
hollanddd/aws-cdk
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:40 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
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