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Top SchoolDarren Hodges is an experienced software leader with over 25 years in development and a decade in senior leadership, currently serving as Head of Development at Wonde in the Greater Cambridge area. He has a strong track record as a founding CTO and product-driven technologist, having led the build and launch of plug-and-play rewards platforms and bespoke social products that scaled to commercial partners across publishing, retail and travel. Comfortable spanning strategy and hands-on engineering, Darren has repeatedly turned complex requirements into rapidly integrable solutions that prioritize partner control and fast time-to-market. His background includes early leadership developing enterprise knowledge-management systems, giving him deep experience in distributed data replication and reliable platform design. Known for practical entrepreneurship, he blends long-term architectural judgment with a bias for shipping customer-facing features. Based in the UK, he brings institutional memory from both agency-style bespoke work and repeatable SaaS productization.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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