Derek Bassett
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio Inc.
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Bassett is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native microservices and distributed systems, currently driving engineering at Twilio from Arvada, Colorado. He has deep hands-on expertise in Go, Java, JavaScript and Lua, and a strong background using Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm to operate resilient services at scale. Derek’s career spans startups and large enterprises—shaping ad-insertion platforms, telecom infrastructure, and service-oriented architectures at companies like This Technology, Comcast, SendGrid and Twilio. He pairs backend systems design with front-end experience (Ember/JS) and complex routing logic, a combination that helps bridge product requirements to reliable runtime behavior. Known for a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach, he enjoys tackling thorny integration and orchestration problems rather than just greenfield feature work. A Kansas State Computer Science graduate, he brings steady execution and a genuine enthusiasm for software craft.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Kansas State University
English
Stackoverflow
61reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (140)
segment10
charts10
helm10
golang10
kubernetes10
integrate10
jvm10
kafka10
trend10
java10
producer10
zsh10
jmx10
go-client9
pulumi9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
derekbassett/oapi-codegen
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years 3 months
golangapicode-generationboilerplatego-client
derekbassett/containers-from-scratch
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Based on the work from Julian Friedman, Liz Rice, and Wellington Silva
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
wellingtonmachine-learningsilvafriedmanrice
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