Darren Pearce
Interactive Visionary at The Darren Pearce Company Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Pearce is an Interactive Visionary and independent contractor with 15 years of experience blending creative direction, UX design, and hands-on development across brands like Getty Images, Kellogg’s, and Electrolux. He brings a rare dual perspective—equally fluent in brand strategy, interface design and game design as he is in code (AS3, JavaScript, Python, Java)—which helps him translate conceptual ideas into polished, functional experiences. As founder of The Darren Pearce Company Inc., he has led projects from conception through production, often applying game-design thinking to marketing and educational initiatives. His open-source contributions include enhancing Guard’s file-system event handling to reliably track deletions and moves, demonstrating practical backend problem-solving beyond client work. Based in Calgary, he combines a fine-arts design education with deep technical chops to shape both form and function in digital products.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Identity, Brand Experience, User Interaction, Typography, Art History, Brochure Design, Package Desi, HND, Identity, Brand Experience, User Interaction, Typography, Art History, Brochure Design, Package Desi at Salisbury College of Art & Design
Github Skills (7)
command-line-interface10
event-handling10
filesystemwatcher10
file-monitoring10
command-line10
ruby10
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guard/guard
Aug 2011 - Sep 2011
Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Darren primarily worked on enhancing the file system modification event handling logic within the Guard tool. Their contributions focused on adding features to monitor for file deletions and moves, which involved modifying the listener to track file timestamps. They converted checksum checks to use timestamps and made related adjustments to the core Guard class and CLI interface. These changes improved Guard's ability to track and react to all types of file changes.
command-line-tooleventsmodificationsfilesystemfile-system
lalomartins/meteor-markd
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 11 months
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