Michael Darko
Transportation Manager
Roselle, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Darko is a transportation manager with nine years of progressive operations and control-center leadership at NJ TRANSIT, now overseeing regional transportation strategy and service delivery. He combines frontline supervisory experience with incident response and control-center expertise, having moved from Regional Supervisor to Acting Chief Regional Supervisor and Transportation Supervisor before his current role. Technically curious and self-taught in backend development, Michael contributes to the open-source Leaf PHP framework, focusing on API, authentication, and database integrations. His MBA-backed management approach blends data-driven decision making with practical systems thinking developed from both transit operations and software projects. Based in Roselle, NJ, he brings a rare mix of public-transport operational leadership and hands-on engineering craftsmanship that helps bridge operational needs and technical solutions. Colleagues rely on him for steady crisis management, pragmatic process improvements, and thoughtful mentorship across teams.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Saint Peter's UniversityBachelor of Education - BEd, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Education - BEd, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of Education
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
php10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leafsphp/leaf
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
🍁 The easiest way to create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 7 reviews, 587 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Leaf PHP framework, making changes to core files related to date handling, request processing, and response handling. Their commits added new response functions, and set content types for all responses, indicating a focus on API development and functionality. Furthermore, the user added authentication features, including token generation and validation, and also integrated a database connection.
apiphp-micro-frameworkleafphpphpjavascript
leafsphp/logger
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
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