Derek Cormier
Senior Software Engineer at Aspect Build
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Cormier is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable build systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack applications, currently focused on a self-hosted Bazel CI product with autoscaled runners and multi-platform CI integrations. He combines deep Bazel expertise with AWS/GCP operations, CI/CD automation, and domain-driven design, and has driven migrations of major projects like angular.io to Bazel to dramatically reduce build times. An active open-source contributor, Derek has improved widely used projects such as Angular and several Bazel toolchains and registries, authored Bzlmod integrations, and published module releases that enable smoother dependency management. He pairs engineering leadership and customer-facing support—helping teams deploy and optimize builds in production—with hands-on automation work, including a GitHub bot that surfaces Bazel feedback on PRs. His background in HCI and robotics research informs a user-centric approach to developer tooling, and he has a track record of solving cross-platform build and testing inconsistencies through pragmatic tooling changes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of ManitobaChinese Language, Chinese Language at Tamkang UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (29)
dependency-management10
javascript10
python10
typescript10
build-system10
cicd10
automation10
starlark10
bazel10
typescript-types10
pip10
nodejs10
automations10
typescripts10
angular10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
The central registry of Bazel modules for the Bzlmod external dependency system.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 16 commits, 46 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek's contributions primarily involve modifying Bazel module definitions within the bazel-central-registry repository. These changes center on updating the versions of dependencies for projects such as `aspect-build/bazel-lib` and `aspect-build/rules_js`. They also published several releases of `aspect-build/bazel-lib`, indicating responsibility for managing and publishing module versions. This user focuses on maintaining and updating the registry's dependencies.
starlarkbzlmodbazelbazel-rules
angular/angular
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:377 reviews, 196 commits, 77 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the Angular framework documentation project. They addressed issues related to date parsing in tests by fixing inconsistencies across different platforms. They also worked on migrating the documentation app to Bazel, introducing build and test targets. Furthermore, the user fixed a failing example e2e test and made modifications to support incremental builds for examples and generating assets.
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