Derek Decker
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at GoFundMe
San Marcos, California, United States
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SeniorDerek Decker is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience designing, building, and operating production-ready services for high-profile clients, including AAA PlayStation titles and consumer platforms at GoFundMe. He’s been the sole developer on multiple microservices in production, owning system architecture, client-facing APIs, CI/CD, load testing, and runbooks that enable other teams to operate reliably. Comfortable across the full stack, his toolkit includes Ruby/Rails, Go, C#, Node.js, MySQL, Redis, Solr, and extensive AWS and automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Jenkins. Derek blends hands-on coding with mentoring and public speaking, having presented to large audiences and documented systems for cross-team use. He has a proven track record of shipping maintainable, well-tested systems and quickly triaging and fixing production issues under pressure. Based in San Marcos, CA, he brings pragmatic engineering and DevOps leadership to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (36)
sleep-mode10
namespaces8
cluster-manager8
slack-bot7
provisioning7
html6
slidetoggle6
php6
css6
jquery6
ruby6
sidekiq6
ajax6
javascript6
devops5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
derekddecker/crystal-ruby-marshal
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 month
marshalunmarshalrubycrystal
playerconnect/thrift
Feb 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 9 pushes, 9 tags in 2 years 11 months
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