Darren Leak is a senior full-stack engineer with roughly a decade of hands-on experience building real-time delivery and driver-management platforms, and over 12 years in software overall. He currently architects and ships Node.js and TypeScript services for last-mile logistics while mentoring a compact engineering team and advocating for high-quality code and best practices. Darren has led iOS and full-stack effortsโporting systems from Python to TypeScript and owning end-to-end product and architecture work at startups focused on CRO and creator tools. He writes about iOS (and increasingly web) development on his blog ProgrammingWithSwift, reflecting a habit of documenting technical decisions for others. Based in the Western Cape, he combines product-minded engineering with a track record of shaping technical direction in small teams and taking full ownership from MVP to monetisation.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC in Web Design and Development, IT, BTEC in Web Design and Development, IT at Prestige Academy
Architecural Draughting Certificate, Architecture, Architecural Draughting Certificate, Architecture at Inscape
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Darren Leak - Senior Software Engineer at Tube Foundry