Derek Brameyer
Head Of Application Engineering
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Brameyer is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling mobile-first teams and products, currently serving as Head of Application Engineering at TELUS Digital. Formerly Chief Engineering Officer and multiple-times partner at WillowTree, he has led enterprise mobile programs for Fortune 500 clients while launching and growing two company offices from scratch in Durham and Vancouver. A lifelong Android enthusiast, Derek combines deep hands-on mobile craftsmanship—contributing to open-source Android tooling like android-betterpickers—with strategic oversight of engineering strategy, delivery, and quality. He’s known for instituting robust practices (code review, static analysis, automated testing) that elevate team velocity and product reliability. Based in Charlottesville with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Virginia, he pairs technical depth with community-building instincts that help attract and retain top talent.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
theming10
android-development10
java10
custom-view9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
code-troopers/android-betterpickers
Mar 2013 - Apr 2014
[NO LONGER MAINTAINED] Android library for better Picker DialogFragments
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:147 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the Android library `android-betterpickers`, which provides custom picker dialog fragments. Their work involved theming the `DatePickerDialog`, `NumberPickerDialogFragment` and `RadialTimePickerDialog` to handle custom styles and theming. They also implemented haptic feedback for user interactions and optimized the date view for locale-specific date formatting.
android-libraryandroidcustom-viewkotlinpicker
derekbrameyer/white-elephant
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Python script that handles a White Elephant game.
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
pythonelephantpython-scripthandleswhite
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