Derek Carter
Linux Infrastructure Consultant at Goozbach Infrastructure Solutions LLC
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Carter is a Linux Infrastructure Consultant with 10 years of focused experience building and optimizing production infrastructure for startups and established companies from fintech to media. He designs and migrates complex AWS environments into Kubernetes, improves developer workflows, and applies best-practice tooling to make systems faster, more reliable, and easier to operate. As a former Staff DevOps Engineer and DevOps team lead, he blends hands-on systems engineering with leadership that scales operational excellence across teams. Derek contributes to open-source tooling for backend serialization in Ruby, bringing practical performance and maintainability improvements to libraries like blueprinter. Based in Provo, Utah, he consistently takes on increasing responsibility without sacrificing product quality and is known for pragmatic refactors that reduce technical debt. He also has a background teaching enterprise Linux courses, which informs his emphasis on clear, repeatable infrastructure practices.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Milford High School
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
json10
ruby-rails10
rails10
serializer10
ruby10
activerecord9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
procore-oss/blueprinter
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 24 commits, 15 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to a Ruby serialization library, implementing core features and functionalities. They focused on defining fields, views, and custom serializers to transform objects into JSON. Furthermore, the user added features like auto-field-select and eager-loading for associations. Refactoring and code cleanup were also key parts of their contributions, improving code structure and maintainability.
railspresenterresource-serializerdeclarativeserialization
dlcarter/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
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