Darren Mcdaniel
Solutions Architect at Landstar
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Mcdaniel is a Solutions Architect with 13 years of technology experience and a proven record of designing and leading enterprise platforms, currently driving architecture at Landstar from Jacksonville, Florida. He pairs hands-on engineering expertise—modernizing search with Elasticsearch on AWS and leading API and mobile app efforts for major grocery brands—with strategic IT leadership in his long-running IT Director role. Darren’s background spans full lifecycle development in .NET and cloud environments, plus production support and team process improvements such as feature-based branching. Notably, he moved large-scale search from slow SQL workflows to sub-second Elasticsearch queries, demonstrating pragmatic cost- and performance-driven choices. His career began in the Navy and early retail and radio roles, giving him uncommon operational discipline and customer-facing communication skills for technical leadership. He holds a Bachelors in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix and blends enterprise architecture with a maker’s focus on measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HS, HS at Gallup High SchoolBachellors, Information Technology, Bachellors, Information Technology at University of Phoenix, Orange Park
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Github Skills (120)
health-check10
digital-signage10
wake-on-lan10
mod-manager10
dotnet10
philips-hue10
hue10
lifx10
dmx51210
shelly10
dotnet-core10
microsoft-teams10
diagnostics10
broadcast10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gizmohd/presencelight
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
PresenceLight is a solution to broadcast your various statuses to a Phillips Hue or LIFX light bulb.
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
unicornsphillips-huelightlifx-lighthue
gizmohd/vixen
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
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