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Ben Darnell is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is the chief technology officer for Cockroach Labs, a company he co-founded in 2015.[1] Prior to his work at Cockroach Labs, he worked for tech companies that include FriendFeed, Facebook, Brizzly, Dropbox, Viewfinder, and Square, Inc.
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Ben Darnell | |
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| Alma mater | North Carolina State University |
| Occupation | CTO |
| Employer | Cockroach Labs |
| Website | Ben Darnell on GitHub |
Darnell entered North Carolina State University in 1998. He graduated in 2002 with a degree in computer science.[2]
Darnell was an early employee of Google and was part of its Google Reader team.[3] He worked with Thing Labs founders Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell, two colleagues that he would later work with as part of Brizzly.[4] He worked a total of seven years for Google and attributes it as being the foundation for his career as an engineer.[2]
Darnell left Google to join FriendFeed.[5] He joined Kevin Fox whom he also worked with at Google.[5] Darnell began working at FriendFeed in July 2009. The company was purchased the following month by Facebook who incorporated Darnell into its team.[4] A few months later, he left to work for startup Brizzly, a third-party interface for Twitter and Facebook[6] that was later purchased by AOL.[7] During his time at Brizzly, Darnell took over Tornado, an open source real-time web framework based on FriendFeed.[8]
Darnell joined Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis at Viewfinder in 2012.[2] He met them in San Francisco when they showed him a sample of their work. He joined the team and worked primarily on the company's iPhone client app.[2] Darnell joined the team at Square, Inc. after its purchase of Viewfinder in 2013.[9]
Darnell helped launch CockroachDB in 2014 along with Kimball and Mattis.[10] They later formed the company Cockroach Labs after launching the software as an open source project on GitHub.[1] Darnell serves as the company's chief architect and also contributes to the source code development of CockroachDB.[11]
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