Koger Darden
Software Engineer at Hang
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKoger Darden is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, event-driven fintech and consumer systems from Austin, Texas. He has shipped production APIs and services at Stripe—helping create the Issuing Tokens API and improving dispute reliability—and built high-throughput notification pipelines and microservice migrations at Indeed. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend expertise (Python, Java, Ruby, Kafka, Terraform) with frontend work in React/TypeScript and has hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, and cloud infra. At Hang he continues focusing on resilient systems and product delivery, bringing an engineering mindset shaped by both startup and large-company constraints. His background in electrical engineering and early automation work with CI toolchains reflects a practical, systems-oriented approach to reliability and developer workflows. Koger’s blend of payments domain experience and end-to-end delivery makes him well-suited for roles that require shipping robust, observable services under real-world scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Portuguese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
web-application5
javascript4
nodejs4
react4
redux4
mysql3
ruby2
sms2
push-notifications1
testing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mkogerd/resume
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
mkogerd/react-website
May 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 42 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years
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