Darren Mcelligott
Founding Software Engineer at Blackletter
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Mcelligott is a pragmatic engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on software experience and nearly two decades in the field, currently serving as Director of Engineering - Platform at Blue J. He specializes in cloud migrations, modernizing legacy codebases (notably converting JS to TypeScript), and redesigning data models to improve stability and deployment velocity. Darren pairs team leadership with a strong emphasis on lean and DevOps practices, having guided organizations through faster, more reliable delivery while growing small teams into platform-focused units. His work includes designing advanced initiatives such as a CRDT-backed diagramming tool and generative AI Q&A, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and product-driven experimentation. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a detail-oriented, pragmatic approach that balances technical refactorings with measurable operational outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (42)
jade-templates10
js-functions10
typescript9
eslint8
docker-compose8
localization8
tarantino8
javascript8
nodejs8
linter7
ecmascript7
docker7
openai6
react6
simple-oauth26
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
darrenmce/webstorm-config
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:117 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
meet-tarantino/tarantino
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
Director of our little world.
Contributions:83 commits, 40 PRs, 69 pushes in 6 years 1 month
containersdirectordocker-composedockertarantino
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