Darren Mckeeman
Founder at Barbary Coast Marine
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDarren Mckeeman is a founder and seasoned systems engineer based in San Francisco who specializes in building high-stakes, failure-resistant systems across e-commerce and real-time embedded domains. With three decades of experience and over a decade in senior technical roles and startups, he has founded multiple ventures—from a maritime AI platform ensuring Coast Guard compliance to a niche homesharing community that scaled to 500 locations in 55 countries. A hands-on technologist, he blends product leadership, DevOps/CTO consulting, and rapid prototyping, and has contributed backend features to open-source projects such as adding user-blocking to django-friendship. Known for shipping practical, auditable solutions, he also authors and runs a development studio, demonstrating an unusual mix of maritime regulatory AI, consumer community building, and deep systems ops experience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Business Information Systems, Associate Business Information Systems at Georgia State University
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Github Skills (7)
postgresql10
python10
django10
testing9
database-design9
caching8
api-design7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
revsys/django-friendship
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Django app to manage following and bi-directional friendships
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darren implemented a blocking feature within the Django-Friendship application, adding the ability for users to block other users. This involved creating a new `Block` model with related database fields and manager methods for adding, removing, and querying blocks. Furthermore, the user integrated the new blocking functionality into the application's views, URLs, and template tags, along with adding corresponding admin configurations, and unit tests to verify functionality.
djangopythonfriendship
kinkbnb/django-allauth
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Contributions:6 PRs, 223 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
pythonpartyintegrateddjangoregistration
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