Derek Bingham
Senior Developer Advocate
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Bingham is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of experience translating business needs into secure, scalable cloud-native architectures. He spent several years at AWS as a Solutions Architect and Senior Developer Advocate, helping customers grow platform spend from zero to over $1M while championing developer tools and cloud best practices. Derek has led engineering teams across startups, enterprises and government, delivering microservices and platform solutions on Azure and AWS. Now based in Perth and working at Bankwest, he blends hands-on architecture with leadership coaching to move projects from prototype to production. He holds an MSc in Engineering Computation and has a practical background building consumer-facing and insurance platforms, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and commercial impact.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering at Ulster UniversityMSc, Engineering Computation, MSc, Engineering Computation at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (55)
aws8
amplify8
aws-appsync8
msdeploy7
azure-devops7
azure-pipelines7
powershell7
arm7
graphql7
azure7
cloudwatch6
amazon-api-gateway6
windows6
amazon-sns6
flutter5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-amplify-example-recipe-app-react-native
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
deekob/cdkpipelinexample
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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