Derek Baron
Founder Principal at Naventix
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Baron is a seasoned technology leader and founder focused on delivering scalable, growth-oriented solutions for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, he provides flexible fractional CTO leadership through Naventix that aligns product vision with business value and technical excellence. He recently led engineering at DraftKings as SVP of Engineering for Hosting, Cloud & DevOps/SRE, and previously steered public cloud and engineering at Netsmart, bringing high-scale, reliability-driven execution to complex platforms. His career spans IBM product management and leadership roles, as well as entrepreneurial ventures like Soul Hole Productions, underscoring a rare blend of enterprise governance and hands-on execution. With an Executive MBA from Rockhurst University and a BS from Missouri State University, he combines strategic business insight with deep technical depth to turn ambitious roadmaps into measurable outcomes. An accomplished leader who believes great technology arises from tight alignment between vision, value, and scalable architecture, he relentlessly pursues opportunities to optimize operations and accelerate growth.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Rockhurst UniversityBS, BS at Missouri State University
Github Skills (43)
computer-vision9
image-processing9
opencv8
directive8
deep-learning8
c-plus-plus8
python7
sdk6
auth06
authentication6
jwt5
authorization5
passport-js5
api5
autocomplete5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SoulHoleProductions/quarky
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 85 commits, 85 pushes in 2 years 3 months
ddbaron/launch-monitor-poc
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:29 pushes in 3 months
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