Darius Archer

Contact Info

Email sbm-fromresume@wastecan.com
Web linkedin.com/in/dariusarcher
Phone 408-483-1983

Objective

Experienced senior software developer looking for remote work, backend or full stack. My preferred languages are Elixir and Python, but I’m comfortable learning and adopting new languages, and I’ve worked professionally with Java, Javascript, Grails, Scala, C/C++, Perl, and C#.

My most recent experience is in developer experience and tooling, specializing in designing and coding documentation and support systems. I’ve worked in a variety of other spaces as well and would enjoy the challenge of something new.

Experience

LinkedIn

Various Roles // Bay Area, CA // early 2010 - early 2024

I went to LinkedIn as a Taos contractor in 2009, and was invited to convert to full time W2 at the end of my contract, changing my primary focus several times.

§ Knowledge Systems

In 2019 as part of some broader reorganizations, I joined the team that was designing and developing knowledge systems: shaping the information architecture, building documentation and discovery tools, and integrating those with existing development and support systems. This was mostly design work, UX research, and integration discussions with other teams.

§ Internal Peer Support Systems

Around mid-2016, I joined a newly created team that was tasked with building better infrasructure for internal “developer-to-developer” technical support, which had previously been conducted largely via email threads. My team received a lot of commendations and bonuses for our improvements.

§ Dev Tools aka “Foundation”

This was a development-oriented generalist role, focused mostly on build and release engineering again. I was moved back to release engineering as part of a long term plan to transition from the system of legacy scripts invoked via home-grown Grails UI, to a Jenkins (then still known as Hudson) cluster which provided enough scalability and repeatability to support the eventual migration from a “component-oriented” system using monolithic source repository, and then to a “product-oriented” multi-repo system with custom CI/CD infrastructure.

§ Site Operations (aka SRE)

I joined Site Operations after my initial team was split up, due to my previous sysadmin experience. Here, the emphasis was on delivery and the management of production systems, rather than compilation and packaging.

§ Release Engineering and Management (initially as a contractor)

My initial role at LinkedIn was as a contractor helping the “Engineering Services” team, which was responsible for the partially-automated build process.

Taos Consulting

Systems Engineer // Mountain View CA // early 2009 - early 2010

Taos (now part of IBM) is a general consulting and contracting company. Taos also hired me as a generalist, and sent me first to Electronic Arts as part of a team working on a major build-out of monitoring and alerting infrastructure. Afterward, they sent me to LinkedIn, who converted me after six months.

Electronic Arts - Monitoring Systems Contractor

Zecco Holdings

Senior Generalist // San Francisco and Burlingame, CA // late 2006 - late 2008

Zecco (now part of Ally Bank) was an online brokerage whose claim to fame was that it was the first “no-fee” online brokerage. My role there was a bit vague, so in practice I spent a lot of time being a “troubleshooter of last resort”, repairing and improving the glue code that held systems together, building bits of toolchain as necessary, and so on.

Step Communications

Developer/System Administrator // Mountain View CA // mid 2005 - late 2006

Step Communications was a company that collaborated with Dow Jones to provide Japanese-language access to US stock prices. Roughly speaking this involved maintaining a collection of special-purpose web portals, along with a multi-stage/multi-source system of batch and stream feeds that updated backends and data for those sites, with varying amounts of delay.

Enfinitee

Systems and Network Consultant // Palo Alto CA // mid 2002 - mid 2005

Enfinitee was another small consulting partnership, where I took on projects as a subcontractor.

Cacheware, Inc

QA Tooling and Infrastructure // Campbell CA // early 2001 - early 2002

Cacheware was an “edge cache” startup, basically trying to do what the enterprise offerings of companies like Akamai and Cloudflare do today. I was tasked with building automated test harnesses for various products to simulate real world usage. The harness was mostly for backend components but was used for some of the UI testing as well. The bulk of the system was Perl, with some C and shell.