Derek Caelin
Senior Product Manager at Tech Matters
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Caelin is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience designing technology for social impact, currently leading soil science mobile applications and environmental storytelling at Tech Matters. He has a deep background training activists and civil society groups in conflict zones to use low-cost digital tools for mapping, data collection, and civic engagement, blending fieldwork with product design. Derek specializes in building easy-to-use, offline-friendly, data-respecting tools—most notably on Terraso and LandPKS—by co-designing with communities around the world. He combines a humanities-informed perspective (MA in Middle East Studies and Conflict Resolution) with practical skills in data visualization, grants management, and product strategy. An organizer of a local sustainability community and a published writer on games for social impact and platform effects, he bridges storytelling, research, and technology. Less obvious: he leverages game design experience to create engaging user flows and learning tools that improve adoption in low-resource contexts.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Middle East Studies, Conflict Resolution, Masters, Middle East Studies, Conflict Resolution at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Arts, International Relations, Bachelor of Arts, International Relations at Suffolk University
Arabic, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
decision-making10
voice-assistant10
inky10
voice-control10
noaa9
weather-data9
e-ink9
openweathermap9
mycroftai9
map-files8
collaboration8
backend8
peer-to-peer8
raspberry8
weather8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DerekCaelin/raspi-weather
May 2021 - Aug 2022
a weather application for the raspberry pi and the Pimorioni Inky pHAT.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
weather-apiraspberry-piphatraspberrynoaa
DerekCaelin/derekcaelin.github.io
Mar 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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