Darren Kopp is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and operating high-performance distributed systems for web and on-premise environments. He has led architecture and engineering efforts from CTO and VP roles to senior staff positions, driving migrations to cloud-native microservices, performance optimizations that cut response times by orders of magnitude, and extensible data import and recommendation systems. As a co-founder of Lupulin Exchange he built a full-featured peer-to-peer marketplace—including advanced alerting, privacy-preserving messaging, and international-ready fulfillment workflows—demonstrating both product sensibility and deep implementation skill. Darren excels at turning complex domain requirements into auditable, production-ready systems and mentors teams through code reviews and hands-on guidance. Based in Maryland, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a proven record of scaling reliable systems across startups and enterprise products.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Weber State University
Contributions:87 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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