Derek Badner
Senior Backend Developer at Resource Modeling Solutions
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Badner is a Senior Backend Developer and geological engineer who combines over a decade of rock mechanics and geoscience domain expertise with six years of focused software and data-science experience. He has moved from hands-on mine stability and rock mass characterization roles into technical product leadership and R&D, driving geostatistics, geomodeling and neural-network based methods at Hexagon Mining and now backend engineering at Resource Modeling Solutions. Derek excels at turning complex geotechnical problems into reliable computational tools and scalable software, blending field experience from major mining operations with production-grade algorithm development. Based in Coquitlam, BC, he brings a practical, interdisciplinary approach—comfortable across data pipelines, algorithm research, and product delivery—that’s informed by real-world underground geomechanics.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geological Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geological Engineering at University of WaterlooGithub contributions (5)
dbadner/CorePhotosMachineLearning
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
dbadner/Geosolver
Jun 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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