Derek Barrera
Founder at Steer Protocol
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Barrera is a founder and seasoned software engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile systems across MEAN and LAMP stacks. He has held technical leadership roles from CTO to Principal Engineer and founding engineer at several startups, blending hands-on development with developer-ops and CI/CD expertise. Derek’s work spans backend APIs, modern frontends (Angular/AngularJS), automated testing, and security hardening, with measurable impacts such as dramatic performance improvements and standardized component libraries. He pairs engineering chops with design skills and Adobe Suite proficiency, enabling end-to-end delivery from UX to production. Comfortable in both startup and client-facing environments, he’s built business management systems, integrated distributed APIs, and led trainings that raised team quality. An unusual strength is his mix of legal-marketing experience and SEO know-how, which informs product decisions that align technical work with go-to-market outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
West Potomac High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Government | Computer Science | Marketing, Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science and Government | Computer Science | Marketing at Radford UniversityPolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Northern Virginia Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Virginia's College at Wise
English
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Github Skills (200)
tooling10
amazon-ecs10
testing10
cli-generator10
swipeview10
solidity10
catalyst10
foundry10
uniswap10
solc10
pug10
tabbar10
ory-hydra10
ethereum10
blockchain10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
derekbar90/catalyst
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Typescript NodeJS Microservices Boilerplate with Generator CLI - Moleculer, GraphQL, REST, OAuth2, Jaeger, Grafana, Prometheus, Ory Hydra, Ory Keto w/ Access Control middleware, Moleculer-DB GraphQL mixin, Pug, Redis, sibling client repo (login, persistance layer, react-native-web, ios, android)
Contributions:124 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pugios-androidiosgrafanaprometheus
derekbar90/ReactCMS
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 1 month
cmsreactbuilt-with-reactheadless-cmsheadless
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