Derek Baron
Chief Technology Officer at Naventix
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Baron is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 11 years in senior leadership and over two decades of hands-on engineering and product experience, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Naventix. He has led large global teams and cloud infrastructure programs—most recently overseeing 220+ engineers and SRE/DevOps at DraftKings—while driving M&A integrations and rapid market expansions. Derek built Netsmart’s Cloud Center of Excellence and pioneered offshore engineering strategies to scale SaaS, mobile, and analytics products across multiple lines. Comfortable at the intersection of product, business, and engineering, he emphasizes alignment, operational rigor, and cost-efficient scale to unlock growth. An Executive MBA and long history at IBM inform his ability to translate data- and cloud-driven initiatives into tangible revenue outcomes. Beyond corporate roles he co-founded a youth-focused app, showing an appetite for mission-driven startups and end-to-end delivery.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Rockhurst UniversityBS, CIS, BS, CIS at Missouri State University
Github Skills (38)
computer-vision9
image-processing9
opencv8
directive8
deep-learning8
python7
sdk6
authentication6
jwt5
authorization5
api5
autocomplete5
javascript4
browser4
rest4
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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