Darren Popham
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Popham is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 30+ years across security, web, and AI-driven products, currently shaping AI solutions as Chief Software Architect at l3rn.ai from Florida. He has led technical organizations from startups (co-founding the early PC firewall pioneer Signal 9) to enterprise roles at PwC and McAfee, driving microservice adoption, global QA, and novel AI proofs-of-concept for resume and skill analysis. As a former CTO of an education-focused social platform, he blended multiple databases and NLP approaches to curate and recommend content, demonstrating a practical knack for composing heterogeneous systems. His hands-on experience spans Azure OpenAI, llama models, LangChain, RAG, and crew-ai agents, alongside longstanding expertise in secure media streaming and product security. Notably, his background in astrophysics and science computing underpins a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving that surfaces in both architectural strategy and experimental AI prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Astrophysics, BSc, Astrophysics at Queen's University
Github Skills (15)
blocker7
shell6
raspberry-pi6
php6
dashboard5
hacklang5
virtual-machine5
dhcp5
dnsmasq5
pihole4
hhvm4
python4
admin4
rtmp3
blackhole3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpopham/nginx-rtmp-server
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Python application demonstrating secure rtmp streaming
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
pythonrtmp
dpopham/disney_api
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 25 days
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