Darren Whitlen
Founder at kiwiirc
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDarren Whitlen is a founder and full‑stack engineer with 14 years of experience building and evolving web communications software from Manchester, England. As the creator of KiwiIRC, he has hands-on expertise shipping UI improvements, protocol features like KICK and QUOTE, and client-side input processing that demonstrates attention to both UX and extensibility. He blends product-minded engineering with open-source stewardship—maintaining and modernizing a public IRC client used by communities worldwide. Known for pragmatic feature work and incremental refactors, Darren often surfaces small but impactful quality-of-life improvements (for example, CLI theming and input aliasing) that improve long-term maintainability and user satisfaction.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
css10
javascript10
html9
command-line-interface8
front-end-development7
web-development7
uid6
ui-design6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
prawnsalad/KiwiIRC
Jul 2011 - Jan 2018
This is **DEPRECATED**! Please go to https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1548 commits, 54 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Darren implemented new features, fixed bugs, and enhanced the user interface by introducing a new CLI theme. They added support for the KICK command and the QUOTE command. The user also enhanced the application by adding client-side input aliasing using an `InputPreProcessor` object.
saslirc-serverkiwiircirc-protocol
kiwiirc/kiwibnc
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 reviews, 468 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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