Derek Brown
Founder CEO at Stealth Startup
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Brown is a founder and product-driven engineering leader with 11 years building consumer financial and digital-economy products, including roles at LinkedIn, Addepar, and multiple startups he scaled to acquisition. He blends hands-on technical depth in web and front-end systems with CEO-level product strategy, having led teams that served tens of thousands of users and launched on-chain social economies for sports fans. Based in Nashville, he experiments at the intersection of digital economies and human freedom through product studios and stealth ventures, showing a consistent focus on financial infrastructure. A voracious reader and community-minded builder (and self-professed taco eater and sports fan), Derek brings a pragmatic mix of operator experience, cross-functional leadership, and curiosity to early-stage startups.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science Philosophy, BA Political Science Philosophy at East Carolina University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
graphiql10
apollo-client10
relay10
sublime-text10
api10
elixir10
textmate10
absinthe10
ember-addon10
sublime10
graphql10
google-maps9
react9
android9
maps8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
derekbrown/techlead
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
links
derekbrown/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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