Derek Chauran
Cloud Engineer at Skillable
Monroe, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Chauran is a Cloud Engineer with nine years of focused experience building and operating cloud-scale, software-defined networking and identity systems, now at Skillable after a long tenure at Microsoft. He has designed and automated complex infrastructure—IaC in Bicep, C#, PowerShell and Jsonnet templates—supporting millions of cores, tens of thousands of Azure resources, and nearly 100k public IPs. Derek led active/active DNS and high-availability designs for critical properties like login.microsoftonline.com and managed migrations to dedicated IP prefixes that eliminated outages. Beyond hands-on engineering he mentored engineers, participated in hiring, and ran networking/on-call rotations bridging product teams and Azure networking. Based in Monroe, Washington, he balances technical depth with practical cost-saving and reliability gains—having driven over $1M in annual savings earlier in his career. Off-hours he’s a ham radio operator and 3D-printing enthusiast, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s curiosity that informs his infrastructure work.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (101)
firmware10
esp3210
temperature10
hex10
avr10
vendor10
atmel10
flash10
commercial10
cnc10
raspberry10
3d-printing10
workbench10
m5stack10
arduino10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dchauran/marlin
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform.
Contributions:4 releases, 84 commits, 96 pushes in 2 years 10 months
firmwarereprapavratmelarduino
dchauran/loopController
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Firmware for the Magnetic Loop Congroller, as described here: https://sites.google.com/site/lofturj/to-automatically-tune-a-magnetic-loop-antenna
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
magneticfirmwaregoogle-siteslooptune
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