Henry Darnell
Senior Software Engineer at SPS Commerce
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Darnell is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and scalable web platforms from startup greenfields to production-grade services. He has led small engineering teams and shaped architecture across Node.js/TypeScript microservices, AWS serverless, Kafka, and relational/NoSQL datastores, while also shipping front-end work in React and Angular. His background includes designing many-to-one ingestion patterns for performant unified data models and breaking monoliths into domain-specific microservices to support rapid customer growth. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular RuneLite OSRS client with UI improvements and plugin features, reflecting attention to polish and community-driven software. Based in Fayetteville, AR, Henry blends hands-on implementation with mentorship and hiring experience, making him adept at fast transitions into startup atmospheres.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fayetteville High SchoolBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics at University of Arkansas
French
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
javas10
rune10
java10
ui-design9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
runelite/runelite
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Henry contributed to the Runelite project by enhancing the user interface and adding features to the existing plugins. They capitalized the word "discord" within the Info panel, added a configuration option to swap the lookup and search functionality in the wiki plugin. They also added a "pensive" emoji and modified the ThinProgressBar to further darken its background color. Furthermore, the user implemented a feature to randomly select a login screen override.
old-schooldotnetrunescapeosrsold-school-runescape
hjdarnel/runelite
Dec 2018 - Feb 2023
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Contributions:80 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 2 months
old-schoolrunescape-clientold-school-runescaperunescape
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