Darren Reed
Staff Software Engineer at Reconnect, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDarren Reed is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with 14 years of experience building and operating scalable Node.js microservices and distributed systems. He has a strong track record of driving measurable performance and reliability gains—reducing response times up to 500%, cutting error rates dramatically, and turning quarterly incident counts into annualized stability. Darren excels at modernizing legacy stacks (PHP/Python to NestJS/Node), designing multi-tenant ingestion pipelines, and leading cross-functional efforts like internationalization and QA enablement. He combines hands-on coding with engineering leadership: mentoring teammates, creating knowledge bases, and instituting testing and observability practices that surface real operational improvements. Notably, he pairs pragmatic performance tuning (Redis, Elasticsearch, metrics-driven fixes) with creative low-cost monitoring solutions to accelerate incident response. His background spans startups and enterprise teams, giving him the ability to move fast while maintaining production-grade reliability.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Kennesaw State University
EnglishGithub contributions (1)
alclabs/TrendExport
Feb 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:103 commits in 6 months
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