Darren L. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Developed Next.js/React website in Typescript to improve customer transparency and autonomy. Conducted user interviews and user feedback interviews to determine scope of project. Worked with UX designer and team (~10) to design and iterate on webpages. Presented and demoed website to key stakeholders, iterating quickly on feedback.

Boston, Ma

Educated Boston city youth on natural disaster preparation and mitigation strategies, such as floods and hurricanes, by creating interactive and engaging narrative-based gameplay. Developed Bash and Python scripts to automatically model and convert the entire City of Boston into video game, and developed game using Java to program game mechanics.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Developed large-scale physician database using web scraper techniques. Used ML and visualization techniques to rank and display physicians based on user criteria. Coordinated remotely with startup team located around the world (Venezuela, Israel, India, Canada, etc.) to plan and develop project goals.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developed prototype website and web scraper system for centralized vaccine appointment finder, http://covidwa.com/, serving over 3 million Washington state residents find COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Worked with team of about 100 volunteers to expand and maintain vaccine scrapers.

Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST) - Developed learning-based recommendation system to guide users through search-and-rescue mission simulation in 3D video game. Created best-path graph manipulation algorithms to determine best route through building whose rooms and hallways change. Recognized by supervisor for making strong infrastructural contributions towards research progress.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developed virtual reality app for Oculus Quest through Unity and C# that visualized and dynamically filtered location-based datasets through interactive VR landscape. Presented viable proof of concept to both client and internal audiences. Recognized by manager for consistent work efficiency, speed of learning new programming tools, and well-developed final project.

Greater Seattle Area

Assisted customers, restocked items, and bagged customers’ groceries. Commended by store management for customer-focus and quality of work with three Customer Service Awards.

Master'S Degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

Worked under Mike Stonebraker in the DBOS group.

Bachelors, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: HKN Underground Director, Neo Scholar

Education record