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30+ years of building

Strategist, Designer, Developer

Senior-level software guy, I love learning stuff, solving problems, and shipping products. I blend design thinking, product strategy, and technical execution to create experiences that matter.

Builder, Learner

After 30+ years in tech, I'm still motivated by what drove me on day one: applying technology to solve problems, and designing and building solutions that just work.

Over the years, I've worn nearly every hat, from designer and product manager to developer as both an individual contributor and leader. I believe this gives me a unique perspective to build meaningful products.

When I'm not working on software, you'll find me reading sci-fi, fantasy, and history books, backpacking in the mountains, and building scale models. I'm a lifelong learner, always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.

Darren Hewson

Based in

Southern New Hampshire

Fueled by

Curiosity

Currently listening to

Indie Rock

Side interests

Hiking, scale modeling, and craft beer

Portfolio of Applications

A selection of products and platforms I've designed, built, and shipped over the years.

2025

I'd Tap That: Craft Beer

Design, Development

Craft Beer and Brewery review app, side project. Developed a Flutter mobile app, node/firebase backend, and React web app.

Fun & Learning
NodeReactCursorFlutterGCPFirebase
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2025

Entitea

Design, Development

Born out of the needs of the I'd Tap That app for clean, current, and accurate company data, Entitea is a fledgling AI native service for business intelligence.

Personal Growth
Product StrategyUX DesignAIPythonAPI
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2024

Insurance Lead Generation

Product Management, Leadership

Built new apps to expand the Marketing and Lead Generation product portfolio into the personal lines insurance market.

New product growth
DiscoveryPartnershipsNegotiationCross-FunctionalPackaging
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2021

miEdge

Product Management, Development

Designed and developed a specialized prospecting database for the Insurance Industry, making highly detailed and specialized data available and useable.

1500+ active users in 2 years
ReactReact NativeOffshoreAWS
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2015

Meltwater News

Leadership

Led a multi-national engineering organization in a major project to re-imagine, re-architect, and re-platform the core Meltwater product

100+ developers, 20+ teams, 3 contintents
LeadershipCollaborationReactNode.js
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2012

Mobile Construction App

Product Management, Leadership

Envisioned and designed a cross platform mobile app for construction companies to enable on job site recording and instant access to production data.

+Efficienct +Accuracy
Mobile DevUX DesignJavascriptApache Cordova
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Three Decades of Building

A journey through design, product, and engineering—always learning, always shipping.

Principal Product Manager, Senior Director of Engineering

Zywave
2019 - Present

Lead cross-functional teams to design and build high value products. Helped grow the product revenue 3x. Managed a portfolio of 6 products in the Marketing and Lead Generation space.

Product StrategyPricingProduct ManagementBudgetingCross-functional CollaborationTeam LeadershipOffshore Development

Director of Product, Founding Partner

miEdge
2016 - 2019

Managed product roadmap and backlog, designed user experiences, managed offshore team. Implemented new products modules, helped drive the company to a successful sale in 2019.

Product StrategyUX DesignBacklog ManagementReactOffshore Development

Director, Senior Director, VP Of Engineering

Meltwater
2013 - 2016

While managing a team of 100+ engineering staff, led an agile transformation focused on highly empowered teams and radical agility, creating a culture of excellence and high velocity.

Servant leadershipRadical AgilityEmpowered TeamsBudgetingCost controlProject Management

VP of Product Development

B2W Software
2010 - 2013

Led cross functional engineering teams through an agile transofrmation, introduced user centric design and research practises. Directly contributed to the creation of several new modules in the product suite.

User centered designAgile transformationCross functional collaborationCustomer research

Early Software Career

B2W Software, Chordiant, Prime Response

1998 - 2010

Built foundational skills across design, development, and product thinking through diverse projects and roles in product ownership, design, and business analysis.

UX DesignGraphic DesignPrototypingSpecification writing

Finance Career

Netg, Negretti Aviation, Evershed & Vignoles

1986 - 1998

Built business and analytical skills through roles in accounting and financial analysis.

Financial managementFinancial analysisProblem SolvingTime management

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