Darren Walker
Technical Lead at Fluent Synergy Ltd
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Walker is a seasoned Technical Lead and agile coach with three decades of software development experience and over a decade of focused consultancy and leadership roles. He blends deep Microsoft .NET and C# expertise with practical experience in Java, Scala, JavaScript, Kotlin and TypeScript, delivering cloud-native solutions and migrations for public and private sector clients. Darren is a TDD specialist and frequent advocate of pairing, mobbing and Continuous Delivery, having embedded these practices to cut delivery time and defect rates across organisations. He has led technically complex government projects (HMRC, HM Prison & Probation Service, Defra) and driven platform and migration strategies that realised significant cost savings. As founder of a contracting company and long-standing Equal Experts associate, he pairs hands-on implementation with coaching and tech-strategy work, helping teams adopt sustainable DevOps cultures. Notably, he has engineered pragmatic integrations—such as using Selenium to present legacy apps as RESTful APIs—showing a talent for creative, delivery-focused technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) Computer Science and Psychology, BSc(Hons) Computer Science and Psychology at University of Reading
Github Skills (15)
react-components10
react10
material-ui9
material-design9
docker8
react-component-library8
backend7
appveyor6
jenkins5
dotnet5
wrapping4
cdp3
git3
react-wrapper1
azure-media-player1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DarrenWalkerDev/GitTest
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:27 pushes in 1 day
hmrc/api-example-scala-client
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
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