Darren is our resident Senior Developer and Viking

6th February 2018What we're up toBy Steve Irons

We promised you some background information on some (or perhaps all) or our amazing new intake of Code String staff. And so here is stuff you don’t know about Darren, our newest Senior Developer. Let’s get straight to the point: Darren is a Viking! It’s surprising what you uncover during an interview but how much more you learn when the person becomes part of your full-time team.

In fairness to Darren, he did reveal his Viking tendencies when we first met. We like our people to fit in, so our curiosity about interests outside work is not simply being nosey. To put ‘Viking’ in context, Darren’s hobby is Dark Age Re-enactment. This means he can often be found dressed as a historical character recreating life during troubled times from 793 AD to 1066 AD, where Vikings and Anglo-Saxons competed for control of the land. And no, Darren confirms that Vikings did not wear helmets with horns – that’s a myth.

For his day job as a Code String Senior Developer, Darren’s main role is programming, but he also has a great deal of contact with our clients about all sorts of technical things. Darren formerly worked for Next – a famous international retail brand based on the outskirts of Leicester.

About the author

Steve Irons

I started programming on a Commodore Vic 20 aged 6. Since then I have grown to love every aspect of computing and technology, the creative and business applications are limitless and never cease to amaze me. I have been working with technology both software and hardware for over 20 years now and in that time I have been fortunate to have been involved in some ground breaking projects for some very high profile clients. Since starting Code String in 2012 I have been working hard to bring all that experience together with the talents of our ever growing team to produce great solutions for clients and great support to those people behind the scenes who deliver them.