Derek Bernard
Sr. Systems Engineer at Disney Cruise Line
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Bernard is a senior systems engineer with 11+ years managing web and desktop infrastructure for large university and enterprise environments, now supporting platform operations at Disney Cruise Line. He specializes in Linux web stacks, automation with Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to streamline deployments for high-traffic sites like university web properties. Derek has broadened his focus from Windows/Mac administration to scalable cloud and container strategies across AWS, Azure, and emerging tooling like Kubernetes, Consul, and Vault. He combines hands-on systems administration with team leadership and developer-facing support, enabling faster delivery while maintaining reliability and observability with Datadog and New Relic. Known for introducing automation at scale, he’s passionate about containers and secure service discovery—practical interests he’s actively experimenting with alongside production responsibilities. Based in Orlando, he balances DevOps craft with family life as a father and husband, bringing pragmatic, steady stewardship to infrastructure evolution.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
West Seattle High SchoolUniversity of Central Florida
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Github Skills (28)
lastpass9
command-line-interface8
cli7
campus6
command-line6
blueprint6
django5
autossh4
wordpress-plugin3
filter3
wordpress3
headers2
tower2
openstreetmap2
ansible-role2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
derekjbernard/ec2-instance-connect-proxy
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
An ssh ProxyCommand utility that integrates AWS ec2-instance-connect with native ssh tools (ssh, rsync, ansible, etc).
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
ec2rsyncsshansibleaws
UCF/wucf-playlist
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
Code to upload and display WUCF Playlist on WordPress Bento site
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
wordpressplaylistwordpress-pluginbento
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