Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains. Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with
responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting,
time-series analysis, content platform architecture, attribute-based
navigation, search, and build and deployment systems. Prior to Amazon.com, Darren spent six years at Goldman Sachs. As a
vice president, he was responsible for tradi...
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Darren has spent his career building world-class computer systems in a variety of domains.
Most recently he was a principal engineer at Amazon.com with
responsibilities in personalization, automated email targeting,
time-series analysis, content platform architecture, attribute-based
navigation, search, and build and deployment systems.
Prior to Amazon.com, Darren spent six years at Goldman Sachs. As a
vice president, he was responsible for trading and risk management
systems that priced billions of dollars of derivative products for the
fixed income, currency, and commodity businesses. See "On Top of the
World: Goldman Sachs and the Culture of Risk," a cover story in The
Economist that discusses the role these businesses played in
distinguishing Goldman from its competitors.
Earlier in his career, Darren built the first microprocessor
simulator capable of booting and running a commercial operating system
under load. Prior to that, micro-architectural simulation was typically
done on user code only, or on static instruction stream traces.
Darren holds an Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown
University, where he studied I/O-efficient algorithms with Jeff Vitter,
and a B.S.E. in Computer Science with Highest Honors from Princeton
University.
