Victor Darkes
Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Darkes is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, full-stack systems for large consumer media platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he has led backend microservices and internal frontends for Movies Anywhere and Disney Movies Insiders, operating at scale for over 10 million users while mentoring and onboarding engineers. His technical breadth spans Kotlin/Java and TypeScript/React, Spring Boot, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and a broad AWS serverless and infra-as-code toolchain (Terraform, SAM, MSK), enabling him to bridge product, infra, and observability concerns. Victor has a background across entertainment giants (Disney, NBCUniversal) and even NASA JPL, showing a pattern of applying rigorous engineering practices across domains from spacecraft workflow apps to media platforms. He’s comfortable setting technical direction on cross-functional initiatives and pairing hands-on implementation with tool-driven reliability (New Relic, Datadog, Splunk). His career path reveals not just system-building skill but a knack for translating complex operational needs into maintainable, monitored services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (43)
metronome10
guitar9
calculator9
android-app9
tuner9
javascript7
keyboard7
css7
spring-boot7
android-library7
spring7
decoder6
android6
vault6
ean136
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iamdarkes/iamdarkes.github.io
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Personal Website
Contributions:12 PRs, 34 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 1 month
reactwebsite-design
iamdarkes/musicality
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019
Android App - Guitar Tuner, Metronome, BPM Calculator
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 6 months
androidguitarandroid-appcalculatortuner
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