Derek Bender
Senior Software Engineer at SRS Acquiom
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Bender is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, maintainable, and secure web applications from California. He combines deep Ruby and JavaScript expertise with infrastructure chops—having migrated 100+ repos and CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions, maintained Docker image fleets, and introduced Nix-based reproducible builds for multi-architecture Debian packages. Derek has contributed backend and database work to the widely used open-source Canvas LMS, shipping features like anonymous grading and submission identifiers, and has repeatedly improved performance and developer productivity through query optimization and CI automation. A hands-on team lead and mentor, he treats every day as a learning opportunity and is particularly excited about reproducible build tooling and modernizing developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (7)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
feature-flags9
activerecord9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Dec 2014 - Jun 2020
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:432 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the development of back-end features and database schema changes within the Canvas LMS project. Their work included implementing feature flags for anonymous moderated marking, adding anonymous IDs to submissions, and modifying database migrations. The user also focused on features related to grading and student submissions.
open-lmsinstructurecanvas-lmslmsinc
get-bridge/docker-base-images
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
Official Bridge docker base images
Contributions:48 reviews, 84 PRs, 152 pushes in 1 year 9 months
docker-imagebridgedockerbase-imagesdocker-compose
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