Darren Wedgwood
Retired Technical Manager Director VP
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Wedgwood is a seasoned technical leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-performing software and engineering organisations across healthcare, security, and semiconductor domains. A certified Scaled Agilist and Scrum Master, he has repeatedly led agile transformations, driven DevOps and quality improvements, and steered teams through acquisitions and rapid growth. His background spans hands-on semiconductor design and EDA tools through to VP and director-level delivery of enterprise software, giving him a rare blend of deep technical grounding and executive delivery experience. Darren is highly experienced in recruiting and developing technical talent, often restructuring failing projects into successful product launches. Based in Warrington, he brings a pragmatic focus on process maturity and continuous improvement, with an eye for training and customer-facing engineering practices that few senior managers retain.
10 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (18)
application-settings9
javascript9
css9
nodejs9
react9
math8
relational7
codebase6
typescript5
certification5
spring5
r2dbc5
spring-data4
ddd3
relational-databases3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
darrenbkl/3drecon
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
darrenbkl/selenium-booking-bot
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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