Darren Johnson
Staff Software Engineer at Instacart
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Johnson is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and leading engineering teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL with a track record of leveling up engineering organizations, most recently at Gemini Legal and now at Instacart. Darren has moved between startup and enterprise contexts—founding a consulting firm and serving as Director of Engineering—so he pairs product-focused execution with strong technical mentorship. Known for orchestrating cross-functional, distributed teams, he excels at turning complex domain requirements into maintainable systems. He brings practical entrepreneurial instincts from his consulting days to large-scale engineering problems, helping teams ship reliable, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (44)
api-blueprint10
circleci10
api-documentation10
redoc9
documentation9
jekyll9
mailgun8
prototyping8
json-api7
sinatra7
json-api-serializer7
pooling7
rails-app6
api6
mhealth6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
djohnson/s3_relay
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
rails-apprailsrubydirectaws-s3
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