Darren Sapalo
Software Engineer at Layer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Sapalo is a pragmatic software engineer and leader with 11 years of professional experience and over 20 years coding, currently based in San Francisco. He has led engineering teams and architected production systems that process millions in fintech flows and scaled an AI-driven financial statement ingestion pipeline to cut modeling time from 10 minutes to 75 seconds. His background spans end-to-end systems engineering—Golang, Typescript, Python, Rust, LangChain—with hands-on DevOps and microservices architecture experience across startups and government projects. Notable wins include designing a remittance platform that handled $20M in transactions across multiple US jurisdictions and building a QR pass system that approved over 500k pandemic-era passes for Filipino frontline workers. Founder of Tome.gg, he applies AI to personalize mentorship and enjoys simplifying complex problems while fostering deep learning across teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Basic and Advanced Certificate Course on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law, Top Student (Advanced class), Basic and Advanced Certificate Course on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law, Top Student (Advanced class) at De La Salle UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 3.59, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 3.59 at Hult International Business SchoolHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Colegio San Agustin, Makati
English, Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
1,849reputation
270kreached
35answers
15questions
Github Skills (200)
api10
child-process10
mongodb10
wordpress-plugin10
continuation10
rest-api10
stackblitz10
playing10
traffic10
wordpress10
plugin10
graphql-api9
functional9
trigger9
observer9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
tome-gg/alignment
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 PRs, 149 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
darrensapalo/fisher-work
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
A set of fish shell related functions that I use to make my sw dev process smoother
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
smootherdevbashfishfish-shell
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