Derek Beard
Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Beard is a Distinguished Engineer with 24+ years designing high-performance data center infrastructure, virtualization, networking and storage systems, currently shaping workload management and mobility on vSphere at Broadcom. He has been a lead architect on multiple first-generation products and services, a day‑one engineer at three startups, and guided CacheIQ from inception through acquisition by NetApp. Derek combines kernel-to-cloud expertise—spanning FreeBSD/AIX kernels, hypervisor internals, Kubernetes, and high-throughput data planes—with a track record of building SSD-optimized caching, non‑disruptive filesystem migration, and NAS-to-object gateway solutions. He’s a pragmatic Agile advocate who has led engineering teams and played product owner and scrum master roles across five companies. Comfortable moving between hardware and software, he routinely adopts new processors, languages and paradigms to solve performance and distributed-systems challenges. Based in Austin, he brings deep systems intuition and a history of shipping production-critical platform services that enable large-scale workload mobility.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math/Computer Science, BS Math/Computer Science at Pepperdine UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (12)
golang10
vsphere10
vmware10
api10
go9
virtual-machine7
api-client6
docker5
kubernetes4
operator4
virtualization3
container2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
derekbeard/govmomi
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 29 days
vmware/govmomi
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Go library for the VMware vSphere API
Contributions:15 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
golangapivmware-vspherego-librarygo
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