Darren Holmblad
Director, Engineering Manager at Strategy
Vienna, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Holmblad is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling international development organizations and delivering commercially successful BI products, APIs, SDKs, and plugins. As Director at MicroStrategy he built and runs a 50+ engineer organization across the US, Poland, and China, setting vision, formalizing API design, and expanding into no-code frameworks and integrations. He played a pivotal role taking HyperIntelligence from hackathon concept to the company’s fastest-growing, highest-revenue product, demonstrating both technical depth and persuasive executive-level advocacy. Darren combines hands-on backend and web architecture experience (microservices, REST APIs, SDKs) with a strong focus on developer experience, organizational consistency, and measurable product adoption. He has a track record of rapid team scaling and performance improvement—hiring 25+ engineers in a year and cutting API response and processing times dramatically—making him effective at translating strategic goals into delivered software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Radford University
Github Skills (38)
microstrategy10
sdk9
highlighting9
rest-api8
java-api8
api8
rest8
data-api8
java7
embedding7
openapi6
specification6
swagger6
javascript6
eclipse5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MicroStrategy/rest-api-samples
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Repository to hold REST API samples
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 1 month
rest-apiapirest
MicroStrategy/microstrategy.github.io
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
MicroStrategy Developer Hub
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 22 days
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