Engineering Manager @ Polywork. LDN->NYC
Darren Burton

Startup Builder

Ruby on Rails

Python

Traveler

Football addict

I'm a full-stack Software engineer with a decade of experience working in early stage start-ups. If polywork.com is broken, it is likely my fault as I built a good chunk of it!


Learnt to code at CERN whilst trying and failing to discover new physics.


Based in New York 🗽 since August 2022.


Loves Food 🥘 | Travel ✈️ | Football ️⚽️ | Running 🏃‍♂️


10+
Years Python Experience 🐍
5
Year Ruby-Rails Experience 💎
4
Half-marathons completed 🏃‍♂️
1
Startup Exit 🚪

Resume

Jul 2019 - Present

Engineering Manager, Polywork

Jul 2014 - Jul 2019

Lead Backend Engineer, Kite.Ly

Oct 2010 - Mar 2014

Phd Research Student, Imperial College London

Life At Polywork

2023

  1. 11 Aug, 2023
    11 Aug, 2023
    Moved from London to New York
    Moving to a new country


    Finally made the move from London to New York. Looking forward to new adventures on a new continent.




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  2. 11 Aug, 2023
    11 Aug, 2023
    Polywork Series A August 2021
    Startup funding


    Not to be outdone with a 5 month build -> launch -> seed round.


    https://medium.com/@mu1tiplay3r/announcing-polyworks-series-a-funding-with-andreessen-horowitz-ea3b5c8a2b76

    


    
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2021

  1. 20 May, 2021
    20 May, 2021
    Polwork Seed Round May 2021
    Startup funding


    Polywork originally started as a plugin to the Kalo Freelance management platform back in August 2019.


    After two years going around in circles we rebuilt the Polywork application as a team of 4 engineers from scratch in January 2021, launched and raised a seed round within 5 months.


    https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/20/polywork-gets-3-5m-to-blend-professional-and-social-networking

    


    
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