Darren Prentice
Software Engineer at Minnetonka Audio Software, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Prentice is a software engineer based in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience building user-focused applications and leading UI design and development at Minnetonka Audio Software (Telos Alliance). He combines front-end expertise from agency work with backend craftsmanship demonstrated by contributions to the well-known Haskell IDE Engine, where he improved completion accuracy, caching, and module structure to reduce circular dependencies. Trained in Music Production & Technology, he brings a creative, audio-aware perspective to software problems and has a background in sound design and composition. Comfortable shipping polished interfaces and improving developer tooling, Darren bridges product design and robust engineering to deliver both usable UIs and reliable backend features.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Music Production & Technology, Music Production & Technology at McNally Smith College of MusicBloomington Kennedy High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
haskell10
ghc10
language-server-protocol9
ls9
componets6
duplicates6
web-audio-api6
javascript6
remote-access6
google-chrome6
command-line6
react6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/haskell-ide-engine
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
The engine for haskell ide-integration. Not an IDE
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Haskell IDE engine, focusing on enhancing its completion features. They added typeclass constraints and rearranged modules to resolve circular dependencies, ensuring the engine's stability. The user implemented caching mechanisms for completion data and improved fuzzy search functionality to provide more accurate code suggestions. Furthermore, the user associated module qualifiers with their members, improving the accuracy and usability of the completion suggestions.
ghchaskellcabalideservant
dpren/pitch-extractor
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Harvest musical notes from the depths of youtube.
Contributions:84 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 3 years 7 months
music-information-retrievalnotesartmidihaskell
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