Darius Liddell

Senior Software Engineer

CareRev•  August 2020 - June 2023•  Remote

Lead Backend Engineer on a small team. Joined the company at early stage with only 8 engineers, and grew to 100+ engineers in 2 years. Built from scratch as sole engineer to help launch a new $50M annual revenue business line. Promoted from Mid-level to Senior in April 2022. On-call rotation every 30-60 days for 1 week to investigate crashes. Significantly reduced the rate of nurses being waitlisted for shifts. Integrated and optimized external APIs, decreasing nurse license verification time from 60 days to less than 10 seconds.

Winemaking Apprentice

Europe•  May 2018 - September 2019•  Europe

Learned the principles of natural and organic winemaking in France, Georgia, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia.

Software Engineer

Spokeo, Inc.•  April 2015 - April 2018•  Pasadena, CA

Ruby/Rails backend work on a small agile team. Optimized ElasticSearch queries with end-to-end testing. Processed 10+ billion records into a single report for a high-performance website with millions of daily unique users. Using Rubocop, refactored architecture and style to improve efficiency and readability by over 50%.

Technical Support Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.•  July 2011 - July 2013•  San Jose, CA

Taught Java and Python classes to fellow employees. End-to-end router and switching networking support for multinational corporations. Honed technical and emotional communication skills with 100+ international customers simultaneously in high-risk, network down situations. Completed CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate). In-progress towards CCIE.