BJ Dierkes
Senior Systems & Software Engineer, Education Platforms
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBJ Dierkes is a Senior Systems & Software Engineer with over 25 years of interdisciplinary experience and 13 years focused on engineering leadership and platform work. Based in San Antonio, he currently builds education platforms at The Linux Foundation while running Data Folk Labs, the consulting and open-source umbrella behind projects like the Cement framework and the IUS Community Project. He brings deep expertise in Python, Linux systems, RPM packaging, and cloud infrastructure across AWS/GCP/Equinix, having architected and maintained production platforms at TrueAbility and H-E-B. A pragmatic builder, BJ combines hands-on core framework development—addressing code coverage and subtle bugs in projects like cement—with a track record of translating operational complexity into repeatable tools and processes.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Information Technology, Associate of Science, Information Technology at ITT Technical Institute
Github Skills (4)
web-framework10
code-coverage10
python10
testing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
datafolklabs/cement
Mar 2013 - Nov 2022
Application Framework for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 667 commits, 76 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:BJ primarily addressed code coverage issues by adding, and refactoring code to prevent false positives in the coverage reports. The commits involved modifications to version.py, backend.py, and foundation.py, as well as setup.py, indicating a focus on core framework functionality. Additional work included bug fixes related to issues like #160, #185, and #187, with minor style and typo corrections across multiple Python files.
pythonframeworkapplication-framework
datafolklabs/backpedal
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
It's like os.walk(), but backwards... and on a bicycle.
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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