About Mavgo

Mavgo is owned and operated by Darian Hickman. Mavgo serves as the home base of all software endeavors of Darian Hickman.

Contact: darian@mavgo.com

Core Capabilities and Experience

Darian Hickman is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and builder focused on data systems, quantitative tools, and developer infrastructure. His work spans from low-latency Go data pipelines to cross-platform desktop apps, algorithmic trading engines, web games, and civic technology research.

Project Highlight: Village Makeover

In 2013, Darian and several remote developers built Village Makeover — an isometric city-building web game — collaboratively across time zones. It was an early experiment in async remote software development.

Technical Focus Areas

• Data & SQLite: Universal data ingestion, high-performance table viewers, and portable SQLite-first pipelines
• Quantitative Finance: Backtesting frameworks, market data extraction, and statistical signal research
• Cloud & AI: Google Cloud tooling, BigQuery ML, and Vertex AI integration
• Games & Media: Web games, card games, board games, and film production
• Civic Technology: Government modernization, constitutional analysis, and urban systems modeling