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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 3] Before New York

In episode one I said the Women Who Code talk hadn't started. June 2nd, I'm on a stage in New York City. This episode is what happened in between — how I built the talk, what prep actually looks like when the tech you're talking about won't sit still, and why getting selected still felt like a scam at first.

  • PodcastHead First

    [ep 2] Cognitive Overhead

    That feeling where everything's too much — not because the tasks are hard, but because the cost of showing up already exceeds what you have left. This episode is about cognitive overhead, why it tips into overload, and what I actually do about it.

  • PodcastHead First

    [ep 1] Before I Was Ready

    Two speaking gigs. One podcast. Zero prior experience with any of it. In this first episode I'm talking about what it actually looked like to say yes before I was ready — HomerCon, Women Who Code, and what prep looks like when you're building the plane while you fly it.