Darren Tan
Senior Software Engineer at SpaceX
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Tan is a Senior Software Engineer at SpaceX with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience building mission-critical systems that span from physical automation to cloud-scale software. He has helped design and ship autonomous droneship thruster controls, robotic laser welding for Raptor engines, launchpad instrumentation and complex time-series telemetry platforms that power rockets, satellites, pads, and factories. Comfortable "from wires to the web," Darren excels at real-time, in-stream aggregation and triggering systems that turn telemetry into automated actions. His background in mechanical engineering and industrial automation gives him a practical edge when bridging hardware constraints and software architecture. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on controls and manufacturing automation experience with large-scale data engineering to solve high-stakes problems under operational pressure. Colleagues rely on him to translate physical system behaviors into robust, observable software platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Chinese
Github Skills (5)
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ssa2
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python1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Tanbourine/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
dotfiles for commonly used programs
Contributions:2 PRs, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
vimcommonlyprogramsdotfileszsh
Tanbourine/EternalDeckTracker
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:98 commits, 6 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 month
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