Stephen Darlington
Manager, Training And Consulting Services at GridGain
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Darlington is a seasoned software consultant and manager with 15 years of experience helping organisations scale data-intensive systems and deliver high-performance solutions. Currently leading Training and Consulting Services at GridGain, he pairs hands-on expertise with client-facing skills—from solution architecture and performance tuning for Apache Ignite to pre/post-sales technical leadership. He founded and ran an Apple-focused product company, shipping multiple iOS and Mac apps, and remains an active iOS contributor (notably enhancing the popular ShareKit library). His background spans real-time streaming, trading systems, and large SaaS deployments at Oracle, demonstrating comfort across low-latency back-ends and mobile front-ends. A Durham Computer Science graduate who started coding on a Sinclair Spectrum in 1985, he combines deep technical breadth with practical delivery and community engagement through talks, patches and open-source work.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Durham University
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Github Skills (46)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
ipad10
multithreading10
java10
javas10
xcode10
xib10
ignite10
cocoa-touch10
iphone10
concurrency10
uinavigationbar9
apim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ShareKit/ShareKit
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Drop in sharing features for all iPhone and iPad apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the ShareKit iOS library by implementing new sharing actions and enhancing existing ones. Their work included adding features for opening URLs in external apps like Chrome and 1Password, ensuring correct behavior based on app availability. They also added support for sharing to the Safari Reading List and improved the behavior for the Dropbox and Diigo integrations.
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apache/ignite
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 19 PRs, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the Apache Ignite project by fixing bugs and implementing improvements related to various aspects of the system. Their work involved modifying code across multiple modules, including core functionalities, SQL indexing, and Docker-related components. The user's contributions included addressing type errors in diagnostic outputs, enhancing Java version checks, and allowing greater flexibility in the Ignite startup script.
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