Darren Mar-elia
Principal Security Strategist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Mar-elia is a Principal Security Strategist and long-time configuration management specialist with over two decades in corporate IT and more than a decade building enterprise software. As founder and CTO of SDM Software and now a senior product leader at Semperis, he combines deep expertise in Windows Group Policy, Intune, Active Directory/Entra ID protection, and pragmatic product strategy to help organizations audit, automate, and recover their identity and configuration estates. He has a track record of shipping award-winning management tools and leading IAM and security architecture efforts at large enterprises like Autodesk and Charles Schwab. Based in San Francisco, Darren blends hands-on engineering, founding experience, and product leadership to create novel solutions rather than rehashing existing ones. A longtime community contributor (gpoguy.com) focused on Group Policy and DSC, he favors targeted, non-generic professional outreach.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Social Science: Organizational Behavior, BA Social Science: Organizational Behavior at University of California, BerkeleyLas Lomas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
gpo9
admin7
powershell6
group-policy6
rights4
rollback3
controlled3
csharp1
dotnet1
dotnet-core1
Github contributions (5)
gpoguy/ADMXToDSC
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
adminpowershellpowershell-scriptgpodesired-state-configuration
gpoguy/GetVulnerableGPO
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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