Summary
Darren Johnston is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams through product development, cloud migrations, and large-scale operational reintegration. He has spent the last decade building an engineering start-up inside a multi-billion dollar corporation, most recently serving as the focal point for re-integrating that organization back into the corporate ecosystem. His background spans embedded firmware and hardware-integrated storage products to cloud services and internal tooling, giving him rare end-to-end product and operational fluency. Darren favors a transparent, servant-leader style, champions customer-centric design, and excels at turning strained partnerships into collaborative, high-performing teams. He pairs technical depth in CI/CD, scalable deployments, and service security with strong program and resource planning experience from leading global SSD engineering organizations. Outside work he organizes community events and tinkers with cloud software, signaling continuous learning and a talent for building technical communities.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlor's, Computer Engineering, Bachlor's, Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln