Di Darren Inglis
Available — —:— —  Melbourne
Folio · 2026 · Melbourne / AU

Darren
Inglis.

Hi, I'm Darren — a Senior Fullstack Developer in Melbourne. I love building with the latest AI tools, and I care just as much about getting the fundamentals right.

13yrs on github · since 2013
128+ repos · public & private
12langs TS · Py · Swift · Rust · Kotlin · …
250m code archived under svalbard ice
things to ship next
§ 01  ·  Approach

How I like to work.

“The best engineers right now aren't the ones writing the most code — they're the ones who know what to build, and can direct a team of agents to actually build it well.”

I've been on GitHub for thirteen years now, building everything from SaaS apps and marketplaces to Unreal Engine horror games and Level 2 trading research. If there's a throughline, it's that I love building things that feel inevitable to use.

These days I'm AI-first in how I work — Claude Code, Codex, custom skills, agents that write tests while I sleep. Not because it's trendy, but because the gap between an idea and something shipped has genuinely shrunk by an order of magnitude. That changes what's possible.

The taste, the system design, the eye for what to ship — those still come from people. That's the part I take seriously. The rest, I'm happy to automate.

I'm looking for a team where engineering taste and momentum both matter — a real problem, a sharp group of people, and ideally something a little out of the ordinary.

§ 02  ·  Selected work

A few things I've been building.

§ 03  ·  Permanent record

Some of my code is buried 250 metres under arctic permafrost.

Back in February 2020, GitHub took a snapshot of every active public repo, etched it onto reels of piqlFilm, and lowered them into a decommissioned coal mine in Svalbard — designed to last a thousand years. A few of mine went along for the ride. So if civilisation collapses and the future digs up a working tetris.js — you're very welcome.

Coordinates
78°N · 16°E
Depth
250 m
Snapshot
02 Feb 2020
§ 04  ·  Toolkit

The tools I love to reach for.

Web

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Three.js
  • Astro

Backend

  • Node
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma

Mobile / Native

  • Swift / SwiftUI
  • Kotlin
  • Java (Android)
  • React Native

Games

  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Unity
  • Three.js
  • GameMaker

AI & Agents

  • Claude Code
  • Anthropic SDK
  • Custom skills
  • Autoresearch loops
  • MCP servers

Quant / Trading

  • Level 2 replay
  • Backtesting
  • TopstepX
  • Python (numpy / polars)
§ 05  ·  Let's talk

Working on something interesting?

I'd love to hear about it. I'm on the hunt for a great team and a meaningful project — senior or staff, remote-friendly from Melbourne. AI-first product work is right up my alley, but I'm always keen to hear what you're building.

Location
Melbourne, AU · UTC+10/+11
Status
Open · Q2 2026
Preference
Remote / hybrid
Reply time
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