Darren Shaw
Principal Developer at Auto Trader UK
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDarren Shaw is a Principal Developer based in Manchester with two decades of experience building customer-facing systems across government, sports, media, retail and fashion. He combines deep hands-on engineering with leadership in delivery, most recently shaping platform and product work at Auto Trader UK after senior roles at YOOX NET-A-PORTER and Zopa. Comfortable in both enterprise and high-growth environments, he has a long track record from IBM through modern digital commerce and banking teams, bringing pragmatic architecture and reliable shipping practices. Known for translating complex business needs into maintainable, user-focused solutions, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science with a practical bias for production-ready systems and mentoring engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
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Github Skills (27)
p5js9
html9
js8
backend8
javascript8
solr7
java7
lucene7
ibm-watson6
nodejs6
watson-discovery6
apache-spark6
ibm-cloud6
jekyll5
information-retrieval5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shawdm/graphic
Feb 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
ibmresearchuk/emerging-technology-workshops
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 10 months
emerging-technology
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