Darius Liddell
Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup
Longwood, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarius Liddell is a Founding Engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems, particularly in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, and currently leading engineering efforts at a stealth startup. He has driven measurable product improvements—most notably automating nurse license verification to cut validation from days to seconds and reducing onboarding waitlists—while mentoring small backend teams and championing CI/CD and testing practices. His background spans startups and enterprise environments, from Spokeo to CareRev, and includes early systems work and network troubleshooting at Cisco that deepened his reliability-first mindset. Outside engineering he pursues hands-on, place-based learning—from organic winemaking across Europe to sustainable farming—which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to problem solving. On GitHub he blends a taste for aesthetics with code and books, signaling thoughtful craftsmanship beyond pure engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University Department of Computer Science
English, Italian
Github Skills (14)
rails-app9
mathematics8
data-structures7
algorithms7
haskell5
data-structure5
typescript5
rails5
functional-programming5
location5
ruby4
math4
clojure3
latex1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
djtrack16/fp-scala-course
May 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
djtrack16/4clojure
Dec 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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