Senior Developer Success Engineer at Vercel
2026. Working with teams building Next.js, v0 and agentic infrastructure — helping them ship faster and solve hard technical problems.
Who is Darlington?
Michael Darlington is a London-based backend engineer turned agent architect, with experience across automotive payments, fintech, cloud platforms, education and regulated software.
Lead Backend Engineer at Cox Automotive
2025. Serverless remittance. EventBridge, Lambda, Open Banking, SEPA. Introduced Claude AI agents with MCP tools across microservices.
Senior Backend Engineer at Finova
2022. .NET 9, GraphQL, CosmosDB. Led 8 developers across four contract-driven microservices. Reduced production incidents 85%.
Cloud Platform Engineer at BNY Mellon
2021. Cross-cloud Kubernetes on Azure & AWS. Python LLM chatbot. Go observability tooling. Terraform IaC — onboarding from 2 weeks to 2 days.
Cloud Software Engineer at Cloud Design Box
2020. GPT-3 tutor chatbot serving 1M+ students. Real-time collaborative whiteboard. <100ms sync nationwide.
Full-Stack Developer at LabLogic Systems
2018. ISO 9001-compliant nuclear medicine backend. C#, SQL Server. Systems can be life-critical.
BSc Computer Science (First Class) at Hull University
2015. Machine vision weather prediction. Natural language to C compiler.