Darlene Ciarcia is a highly accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience in IT operations and software engineering. She has a proven track record of driving growth and scaling engineering organizations while attracting, retaining, and mentoring top talent. Known for her passion for innovation, Darlene has built global engineering teams that deliver world-class products and services on time under aggressive timetables. Darlene is an influential leader who fosters a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, feedback, and engagement.

Darlene has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Her expertise includes cloud, SaaS, security, analytics, containerization, Docker, technical leadership, product development, enterprise architecture, data science, big data, machine learning, networking, agile methodologies, lean, 24/7 service delivery, CI/CD, DevOps, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, micro-services, threat intelligence, global teams, recruiting, mentoring, open source, platform architectures, software development, web services, test automation, and continuous improvement.

Darlene Ciarcia's professional experience includes serving as a Software Engineering Manager at Lockheed Martin, Technology Modernization and Optimization Leader at Lockheed Martin, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Satcom Direct, Engineering Technical Leader - Program Management at GE Transportation, Staff Engineer at GE Transportation, Software Engineering Manager at Inmarsat, Lead Systems Engineer at GE Transportation, Contractor through Riverside Technical Services at GE Transportation, Software Engineering Consultant at Merimax, Inc., Senior Software Engineer at HP, and Software Engineer at Databas Publishing Software.