Darren Mcdonald
Principal Software Engineer at Global-e
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Mcdonald is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed systems and high-volume back-end services, currently continuing his role at Global-e after Flow Commerce’s acquisition. He has a strong functional-programming background as a Scala developer, having built cross-border e-commerce and global post-trade processing platforms for Flow Commerce and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Darren’s career spans major financial institutions and enterprises where he re-engineered trading and payments systems using Java and Scala, delivering mission-critical, low-latency solutions. He pairs deep systems design experience with front-end and thick-client delivery, enabling end-to-end product ownership from API to UI. Based in New Jersey, he brings a blend of financial domain expertise and pragmatic engineering that scales for global customers. An understated strength is his consistency in navigating complex, regulated environments through multiple acquisitions and greenfield projects.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer and Information Science at University of South Australia
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Github Skills (54)
sbt10
api-proxy9
scala9
api9
api-builder8
psql8
proxy-server8
testing8
unstructured7
tracks7
rest7
consistency7
bank7
react7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
darrenmc/apibuilder-validation
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Validate and transform unstructured JSON based on an API Builder Spec
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
apivalidationtransformspecbuilder
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