There was ‘the moment’. It was the moment when Darren was standing in a room full of 70′s era mainframes watching the tapes spinning and the engineers typing on their green screen terminals. Those machines and the incantations to make them work were fascinating. When his parents had the prescience to send him to computer day camp in the 80s the affair began in earnest. Hacking apart BBS software on his Apple IIe and disassembling the family telephone cemented programming in his mind and laid the groundwork for his professional career. However, there would be a detour, as young Darren’s gaze was turned by the siren call of skateboarding and punk rock, leading him astray to art school for a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Fine Arts.

While working through his dissertation for his MFA, Darren landed a small job at the school gallery maintaing a network of Mac Classics and building a new database for tracking artwork. The old flame was rekindled, and soon after graduation he left for New York City to find his fortune. Landing a gig building interfaces for online financial applications in 2000 he voraciously consumed everything there was to know about HTML, CSS and JavaScript and hasn’t stopped since. Starting with some street-fighting PHP knowledge Darren quickly became enamored with the craft of programming and started to delve into Ruby and Python to augment his front-end development skills. Darren loves good design, good code, and grappling with interesting problems in general.