Darren Thompson
Director Of Engineering - Payments at InsurePay
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Thompson is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently directing payments engineering at InsurePay after senior roles across fintech and consumer platforms. He combines deep JavaScript and React expertise with backend proficiency in Elixir/Phoenix, GraphQL, and REST to ship end-to-end systems—from high-performance frontend onboarding flows to scalable payment and notification backends. Darren has led teams through full product lifecycles, mentoring engineers and coordinating complex integrations with payment processors, finance, and mobile platforms. He has a track record of optimizing for performance and scale (e.g., services handling billions of push notifications and instant games reaching millions of users) and a hands-on founder’s mindset from hardware and SaaS ventures. Based in Old Toronto, he blends pragmatic engineering, rapid adoption of new technologies, and a penchant for architecting near-native hybrid mobile experiences.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
McMaster University
Github Skills (164)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DiscoStarslayer/Blog
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
DiscoStarslayer/Skype-Bot
Apr 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
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