Darren Cauthon
Manager Of Software Development at Ascend Learning
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Cauthon is a seasoned software leader with roughly two decades of hands-on development experience and 16 years in senior engineering roles, now managing software development at Ascend Learning from Prairie Village, KS. He has led teams and architected a wide range of systems—from content-driven web apps and e-commerce to mobile and backend services—working across many stacks, databases, and architectures. Darren pairs practical engineering discipline (tests, monitoring, analytics) with an MBA-driven lens for turning business needs into delivered products and scalable teams. A longtime mentor and OSS contributor, he made notable backend improvements to the popular Huginn project’s webhook agent, improving HTTP verb handling and robustness. Comfortable both coding and leading, he intentionally blends developer craftsmanship with product and people leadership to grow teams that reliably ship value.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Park UniversityBS, Computer Science, Math minor, BS, Computer Science, Math minor at Missouri Western State University
Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
rails10
agent10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
automation9
automations9
rest-api9
api-rest9
rspec9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
huginn/huginn
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 12 PRs, 115 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Darren contributed significantly to the `webhook_agent` within the `huginn/huginn` repository, enhancing its functionality and robustness. Their work focused on improving the agent's ability to handle different HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT) and defining the supported verbs, as well as handling edge cases and improving the flexibility of how verbs are specified. The changes also included modifications to error messages and refactoring for better code organization.
rssmonitornotificationshuginnmonitoring
darrencauthon/mushy
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:172 PRs, 224 pushes, 167 branches in 1 year 11 months
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