Derek Chafin
IT Director Lead Programmer at Heartland Soccer Association
Melbourne, Victoria, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Chafin is an experienced IT director and lead programmer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack systems across Java, .NET, PHP, C/C++ and modern web technologies. He combines systems administration expertise—managing Windows Server, Active Directory, diverse Linux distributions, pfSense networks and both SQL and NoSQL databases—with day-to-day software delivery as IT Director at Heartland Soccer Association and MarketLeverage. Comfortable across embedded platforms (Atmel AVR), server-side stacks, and client-side JavaScript, he bridges infrastructure, development and operations to keep services resilient and secure. A pragmatic problem-solver, he runs and administers his own mixed OS environments (ArchLinux, Ubuntu, Windows) and small production networks, bringing operator instincts into architecture and code.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Metropolitian Community College of Kansas CityBSBA, Business Administration with Computer Programming, BSBA, Business Administration with Computer Programming at University of Central Missouri
English
Github Skills (200)
python10
switch10
digital-signage10
openstack-swift10
rsync10
automation10
backup10
cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
cloud-object-storage10
icloud10
aws-s310
home-assistant10
sftp10
encryption10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
infomaniac50/SimpleTimer
Jun 2012 - Dec 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
infomaniac50/Bash-Workflow
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:64 pushes, 3 branches, 10 tags in 2 years 3 months
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