Darren Reid
Freelance Software Engineer at ServiceStack, Inc
District of Belconnen, Australia
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Top SchoolDarren Reid is a freelance software engineer with nearly 15 years' experience building extensible web APIs, developer tooling, and resilient cloud infrastructure. He has shipped production systems across weather forecasting, national hazard management and geospatial domains, including leading the AWS migration of Geoscience Australia’s Sentinel system to 100% uptime during its first fire season. As Solcast’s first hire he architected scalable APIs and CI/CD pipelines that processed terabytes of data and helped drive the company to acquisition. Darren is a prolific educator and tooling advocate—authoring 80+ YouTube tutorials, blog posts, and JetBrains plugins that streamline ServiceStack developer workflows. His technical arsenal spans .NET/C#, Python, Java, Docker, Terraform and AWS, with notable open-source contributions improving authentication, ORMs and native-type generators in the widely used ServiceStack projects. He combines hands-on implementation with cost-conscious infrastructure design and a focus on developer experience, making him effective on both product and platform problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV Programming (Games) Computer Programming Specific Applications, Certificate IV Programming (Games) Computer Programming Specific Applications at Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) RTO 88021
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 296 commits, 43 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Darren's commits primarily focused on improving the authentication and registration processes within the ServiceStack framework. They addressed potential errors by adding checks for the `IAuthRepository` and the `OrmLiteAuthRepository` initialization, providing more informative error messages to guide developers. Furthermore, the user made changes to the F# and VB.Net native types generators by adding type aliases. Finally, they also improved the SSE client restart logic.
actionscriptcsvxmlnet-frameworkframework
ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite
Jul 2014 - Apr 2022
Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to improving the ORM's functionality and addressing specific issues. Their work involved bug fixes related to enum handling in MySQL and enhancements to join operations, particularly when dealing with columns of the same name in joined tables. The user also implemented checks and fixes for handling null values in insert statements, and addressed issues related to nullable enum and int casting. The user also focused on adding tests for key features.
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