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Speaker. Engineer. Lifelong learner.

Hi, I’m Darian.

I used to shrink. Then I built systems, found my voice, and learned the audacity to ask for everything I deserve. You deserve that too — let's find your voice together.

Darian

Who am I?

I speak.

On stages for developers, in rooms full of women who are done playing small. I want my words to land.

I build.

Software, systems, tools that reduce the weight of thinking so you can do the work that actually matters.

I learn obsessively.

Then I synthesize. The best ideas I've found don't stay in the book, they end up in your hands.

Speaking

Home Depot — HomerCon - Lightning

Reducing Cognitive Overhead via AI

Personal systems for managing information load. How intentional tooling frees up capacity for the work that actually matters.

Atlanta, GA

> 70

people

Women Who Code - Keynote

Upcoming

AI to Understand Codebases & GitHub

Practical AI techniques that cut the cognitive overhead of navigating unfamiliar codebases — useful at every experience level.

Atlanta, GA

+500

people

Recent writing

PodcastHead First

[ep 6] Know Your Room

You cannot pick the right way to say something until you know who you're saying it to. Part two of Say What You Mean is about the how: reading a room before you speak, why body language lies to you, and what actually tells you what someone needs.

  • PodcastHead First

    [ep 5] The Shift

    For a long time in tech, being smart enough was the whole job. In the first episode of a new series, I talk about why that's not true anymore, and it's not because the industry got nicer. It's because of AI.

  • PodcastHead First

    [ep 4] After New York

    Content note: this episode briefly touches on domestic abuse. I walked off that stage in New York and knew something had shifted. The mic wasn't working. I had technical issues within the first five minutes. And I belted it from my chest anyway.