Darwin Darakananda
Head Of Business Development at Computer Union Co.,Ltd.
Los Angeles, California, Thailand
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Top SchoolDarwin Darakananda is a business development leader and former production manager with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging engineering, operations, and go-to-market strategy. Based in Los Angeles and with deep technical roots from multiple degrees at UCLA including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, he brings analytical rigor to commercial leadership as Head of Business Development at Computer Union Co., Ltd. He pairs hands-on familiarity with complex technical projects—evident from substantive open-source contributions to the Julia ecosystem, including fixes and feature work in the core Julia language and high-profile plotting libraries like Plots.jl and Gadfly.jl—with commercial execution. Darwin’s background in production management and executive support gives him a practical, systems-oriented approach to scaling teams and workflows. Notably, his open-source work addressed subtle numerical and rendering issues (e.g., searchsorted correctness and contour/color handling), reflecting attention to detail that benefits both product quality and client solutions. He is fluent in translating rigorous engineering insights into business value across international contexts.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
data-visualizations10
algorithms10
visualization10
back-end-development10
testing10
data-visualisation10
plot10
graphic10
data-structure10
data-structures10
data-visualization10
ggplot10
visualizations10
numerical-computing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GiovineItalia/Gadfly.jl
Jun 2014 - Feb 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Darwin's contributions focused on enhancing the Gadfly.jl plotting library. They addressed bug fixes related to color assignment in 2D histograms and contour line ordering. Furthermore, the user implemented new features such as the integration of the `group` aesthetic in contour plots and added contour plotting functionality from a matrix. They also made code improvements, including a typo fix and adding encoding information to the HTML header.
statistical-graphicsjulia-languageggplot2statisticalgadfly
JuliaLang/julia
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Darwin contributed to the Julia programming language core, primarily focusing on the `searchsorted` and related functions, improving their handling of various data types like integers, floats, and unsigned integers. Their work involved writing tests, fixing bugs, and refactoring existing code to ensure the correctness and efficiency of these fundamental functions. The user also corrected documentation errors and added tests for file monitoring features.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
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