Summary
Derek Dick is a UI Developer with 11 years of professional experience and a long track record building user-focused interfaces for enterprise and high-security systems. He blends deep front-end craft—GWT, Wicket, jQuery/CSS and animation/video tool expertise—with backend experience in Spring/Hibernate, Lucene search, and cloud-scale data storage. His background includes work on digital cash and encrypted transaction servers, financial planning tools, and performance profiling, giving him unusual depth in security, optimization and JVM internals. Derek is drawn to elegant UI design, data normalization and pragmatic testing frameworks, and he often tackles tricky problems like timezone handling and locale-sensitive data. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs creative roots in game and graphics development with modern web architecture to deliver interfaces that are both usable and technically robust.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University