Summary
Derek Barnhart is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building product-focused web and embedded systems. He pairs entrepreneurial instincts—cofounding Kodely and serving as technical cofounder at Datasnap.io—with senior engineering roles at Neustar, Vercara, and DigiCert to rapidly prototype and ship MVPs across front-end, analytics, and IoT domains. Comfortable across the full stack, he has designed data visualization and indoor-mapping platforms, built high-dimensional analytics tools, and implemented scalable dashboards and attribution systems. Derek favors short development cycles and pragmatic architectures, often leveraging the MEAN stack, Python, AWS, and mapping libraries like Leaflet. His background in accounting gives him an unusual strength for turning product metrics into actionable engineering priorities.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Accounting, BS, Accounting at Salisbury University - Perdue School of Business