Summary
Kevin Darlington is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience, currently building resilient systems at CrowdStrike from his base in Miami. He moves fluently across the full stack—Go, Python, Rust, JavaScript and more—having led server, frontend, and infrastructure work as a former CTO for BlockExplorer and across multiple startups. Kevin excels at rapid domain learning and turning novel concepts into production-ready products, from federated collaboration platforms to EMR parsers for HL7 and EDIFACT. He has a strong performance tuning pedigree (cutting multi-minute queries to sub-second) and practical ops experience provisioning bare-metal and virtualized servers. Curious and adaptable, he often learns new languages or frameworks on the fly to solve hard engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.896, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.896 at Florida International University