Robin Darby
Lead Technician Architect at Department for Education
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobin Darby is a seasoned technology leader and system architect with 15+ years in cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and cybersecurity, based in Erie, Colorado. At Divergent since 2022 as Technical Manager and System Architect, he boosted deployment velocity by 40% and cut production cycles from four months to three weeks by building an orchestrated microservice platform for CAD design on a 16-node on-prem Kubernetes cluster, using Temporal for workflow orchestration. He replaced Jenkins with GitHub Actions, enabling trunk-based development, automated rollbacks, and a 90% reduction in deployment failures, with MTTR improving 75%. He designed an observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus) with distributed tracing, improving issue detection speed by 4x and cutting production downtime by 70%. His Zero Trust Architecture and NIST cybersecurity initiatives increased policy enforcement efficiency by 70% and time-to-remediation by 90%, while transitioning on-prem Kubernetes to a hybrid edge-cloud model to meet 90% demand and reduce AI/GPU costs by 40%. Prior leadership roles at INTURN, Verizon (where he helped build a data mesh that unlocked millions in advertising revenue), Vail Resorts, and Amazon across architecture, robotics, big data, and developer tooling, supported by an HND in Software Engineering from Manchester Metropolitan University.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Leighton ParkHND, Software Engineering, HND, Software Engineering at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (56)
devcontainers9
jetbrains9
remote-development9
ide9
development-environment9
devcontainer9
sailfishos8
dev-tools8
terraform8
geojson8
vscode8
golang8
mapbox-gl8
null-safety7
openstreetmap7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robindarby/pitches
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:67 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
robindarby/unicorn-team-pitch
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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