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Darren Poulton

Full-stack developer with more than 25 years on the keys ... Technomancer / Bit-Wrangler / Drummer / ... mostly harmless

  • October 1st, 2018

    MRD Rail Technologies (Senior Software Engineer)

    Cleveland, QLD Australia

    Developed a world-first system which determined the health of devices used by global railway operators by analysing the waveform (signal) of the current drawn by each device.  Saved the industry MILLIONS in unnecessary maintenance costs.

    TECH STACK: PHP, Python, Embedded C, Angular, RabbitMQ
  • July 6th, 2015

    Veromo (Senior Software Engineer)

    Sydney, NSW Australia

    Tech lead at new startup offering B2B regulatory management services.  Designed & built software interfacing with servers operated by Australian Taxation Office (using 40-year-old protocols) .

    TECH STACK: PHP, Node.js, Angular
  • March 28th, 2005

    Aequitas Internet Pty Ltd (Owner)

    Brisbane, QLD Australia

    Aequitas started as my own engineering practice dealing primarily with custom middleware and integrations for small business.  Took a few contracts for custom end-to-end systems for larger clients.
  • February 15th, 1999

    Ritech Internet Services (CTO)

    Gold Coast, QLD Australia

    My first experience of building a start-up into a multi-million dollar company.  Responsible for designing company's software products and managing engineering team.  Ritech's products were among the first in the world to do what they did ...
  • February 1st, 1997

    Diggy Internet (Software Engineer)

    Brisbane, QLD Australia

    My first job out of university as a professional.  Cut my teeth by helping to develop the first-ever integrated website CMS / storefront management software called "EShop" which was built on the INFORMIX ORDBMS ($250,000 worth of database system at the time) ...
  • February 1st, 1994

    University of Queensland

    Brisbane, QLD Australia

    Studied Cognitive Science with a double-major in Machine Learning.  Subjects included Mathematics, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Computer Science, Neuroanatomy ...
  • August 16th, 1989

    Department of Defence - Army

    Australia

    Joined the Australian Army and was trained in Electronic Warfare (Signals Intelligence).