Darrin Eden
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDarrin Eden is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 17+ years of experience building resilient, scalable platform and DevOps systems for startups and Fortune-scale companies. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka) with product-minded leadership to accelerate delivery of AI workflows and reduce operational risk. At companies like DigitalOcean, ngrok, and LaunchDarkly he drove large efficiency gains—slashing provisioning times, cutting AWS spend by $800K/year, and transforming CI/CD and incident programs. An active open-source contributor, he implemented DNS and domain management integrations in the widely used Fog Ruby cloud library and improved Graphite monitoring ops. He is skilled at translating business needs into consensus-driven technical strategy, creating observability at scale, and mentoring teams to make autonomous, measurable decisions. Notably, he pairs deep systems engineering with a focus on developer experience, turning lengthy developer processes into minutes-long workflows.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Miami
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Github Skills (21)
domain-name10
apidoc10
testing10
graphite10
ruby10
chef-client10
api10
chef-solo10
devops10
api-design9
restful-api9
ubuntu9
api-rest9
python9
rest-api9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/graphite
Feb 2011 - Apr 2012
Development repository for the graphite cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Darrin focused on configuring and improving the Graphite monitoring system. Their contributions include setting up upstart configurations for the carbon-cache daemon, defining default Graphite root password, and adjusting Graphite to listen on localhost by default, enhancing security. Additionally, the user made changes related to version bumps, and integration with other tools such as Ganglia, showcasing a focus on overall system management and integration.
cookbookgraphitechef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
fog/fog
Feb 2011 - Feb 2011
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darrin implemented initial functionality for interacting with the DNSimple API within the Fog Ruby cloud services library. They created requests for domain management, including listing, creating, getting, and deleting domains. The user also added the ability to create, update, and delete records. Their work involves defining API interactions and constructing requests within the Fog framework. The user further developed models to represent domains and records and implemented unit tests to ensure the correct behavior.
cloud-servicesruby
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