Derek Crovo
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Crovo is an engineering manager in San Francisco with nine years of formal experience and a long track record of hands-on systems engineering stretching back to the late 1990s. He leads Zendesk’s Foundation Network team, operating Istio service mesh and AWS network components, and previously evangelized and rolled out service-mesh infrastructure across the org. A pragmatic automation advocate, Derek repeatedly modernized ops and CI/CD—using Go, Python, Perl, Docker, Ansible and Terraform—to eliminate classes of production bugs, reduce toil, and improve developer velocity. He’s equally comfortable designing scalable distributed systems (e.g., a clustered AirWave data plane and a decade-running FAX-to-Email pipeline) and owning day-to-day operations, which gives him rare full-stack infrastructure empathy. Colleagues rely on him for clean, simple designs that make complex networking and platform problems maintainable and auditable.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Science, BS Computer and Information Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (52)
kubernetes10
docker10
vpn10
openvpn10
security10
docker-container10
proxies10
pki10
microservices10
circuit-breaker9
service-mesh9
nomad9
api-management9
resiliency9
observe9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
derekcrovo/docker-openvpn-yubikey
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
🔒 OpenVPN server in a Docker container complete with an EasyRSA PKI CA
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pkieasyrsa-pkivpndockeropenvpn-server
derekcrovo/bigdev
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Launch a dev instance in a new VPC and access it through Tailscale
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
tailscalevpcdev
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