Derek Carr
Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Carr is a Senior Distinguished Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms and enterprise software, currently shaping OpenShift and contributing to upstream Kubernetes at Red Hat. He brings deep polyglot expertise across Java, Go, JavaScript and Ruby, and a proven track record integrating application servers, databases and container tooling into production-grade services. Prior to Red Hat he led architecture and development of large-scale social and content-management systems at IBM, including contributions to the OASIS CMIS standard and solutions that supported millions of users. Derek combines systems-level engineering with practical API and REST architecture skills, having delivered multi-tenant, analytics-driven products and migration paths from on-premise to cloud. He’s comfortable across the full stack—from low-level platform concerns to rich web UIs—and has a history of influencing product strategy, standards, and performance-sensitive implementations. Based in Apex, NC, he pairs enterprise-scale experience with active open-source engagement around Kubernetes and platform tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Boston College
French
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Github Skills (107)
clustering10
pug10
angular-app10
yeoman10
fibers9
sql9
scale9
database9
cpp9
redis9
scaling9
memcached9
kubernetes-node9
flexibility9
mysql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zaphinath/dragonfly-operator
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
A Kubernetes operator to install and manage Dragonfly instances.
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 month
zaphinath/piposter
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 days
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