Derek Alonso
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Alonso is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 13 years of software engineering experience spanning cloud, productivity, and startup environments, currently supporting sovereign cloud initiatives at Palantir after recent roles on Azure SQL and O365 at Microsoft. He holds an active Top Secret clearance and a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland, bringing both security-minded discipline and broad technical fluency to mission-critical systems. Derek has a practical focus on code quality and testing—evidenced by contributions to Palantir’s TypeScript linter work—plus hands-on familiarity with build and test automation. He moves comfortably between fast-paced startup contexts and large-scale cloud platforms, shipping reliable, auditable solutions. Colleagues know him for tackling complex problems end-to-end, from low-level rule validation to cloud service integration.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (10)
linting10
typescript10
typescripts10
static-analysis10
typescript-types10
test-automation10
testing10
g8
gruntjs8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/tslint
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
:vertical_traffic_light: An extensible linter for the TypeScript language
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributes to the project by modifying and extending existing test suites. Their work focuses on the "trailing whitespace rule", TypeScript services and several other rules such as `useStrictRule`, `variableNameRule`, and `typedefRule`, implying a focus on code quality and linter rule validation. These commits show an understanding of the codebase and the application of testing methodologies to ensure rule compliance and identify potential issues. The user also modifies Gruntfile.js, suggesting familiarity with build and testing processes.
linterlighteslinttraffic-lighttslint
palantir/eclipse-typescript
May 2013 - May 2016
An Eclipse plug-in for developing in the TypeScript language.
Contributions:691 commits, 20 PRs, 101 pushes in 3 years
developingplug-ineclipsejavatypescript
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