Invincible people Beyond that he’s a family man, an athlete and an all round fascinating person to chat to. With that in mind, we sat down with him to discuss his Darren Hull - time with Atlas and his upcoming adventures, namely the Ironman Part Machine, World Championship, which at the time Darren had been preparing for. Part Man Atlas: You’ve been with Atlas since the early days, Darren. What’s your role within the team? @chan_rex888 Darren: My current position within Daz can u give other Atlas is a Cloud Architect, but I also people a chance! have a Technical Architecture role. As a cloud Architect I am responsible for creating a clear overall cloud architecture vision and ensuring A: How did you find your way into send out into the big wide world. that our environments are safe and this career? secure. As a Technical Architect I A: You’re about to head off to the design solutions to solve problems, D: That’s a good question. In college, IronMan World Championship, how ensuring that these solutions meet many years ago now, I was planning long have you been an Iron Man and our quality expectations and cloud to study Hardware Engineering but I what made you participate? principles. enjoyed the programming side of the course more than the hardware side, D: I was always into cycling, but back A: And how long have you been with so I decided to swap courses and in early 2017 one of my friends asked Atlas for? haven’t looked back since. me if I wanted to do an “Ironman”. Having no idea what one was I did Darren is one of Atlas’ longest D: I have been working for Atlas for A: What would you say is your most an initial investigation and jumped standing employees. He’s been 4 years now and was the very first proud moment during your time with at the chance to get involved! How instrumental in bringing our world official Atlas employee. I was hired by Atlas? hard could it be? I then realised I beating software to market, both in Martin Kelman and Marco Cereghino would need to learn how to swim and practical terms as a developer as (former CTO) and helped onboard D: It sounds a bit cliche but I am actually start running, so we decided well as shaping the vision of what other technical team members. proud of Atlas every day! I feel like a that we would enter the Majorca 70.3 Atlas software can be. parent nurturing their child to grow (half distance) Ironman in May 2018. into something they are proud to ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022