Derek Edwards
Founding Head Of AI Platform And Infrastructure
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Edwards is a founding AI and infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, HIPAA-aware AI platforms for healthcare and enterprise. As Founding Head of AI Platform and Infrastructure at Qualified Health and former VP AI at Elevance Health, he has operationalized generative AI, governance, and post-deployment monitoring to deliver validated clinical models and large-scale knowledge systems. He combines rapid startup execution—bringing multiple MVPs to market in 30–90 days—with enterprise-scale engineering, having recruited and led teams of 150+ across AI, product, and SRE functions. His work unlocked major operational and financial outcomes (e.g., multi-million dollar recurring savings from clinical models) while implementing zero-trust, FHIR-based data foundations. A serial founder and investor, Derek has repeatedly turned resource-efficient teams into sustainable products and partnerships across academia and industry. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he blends hands-on systems design with governance-first AI practices tailored to regulated healthcare environments.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (47)
javascript9
overleaf9
react9
documentation9
cronofy9
rmarkdown8
latex8
bibtex7
pandoc6
wifi5
citation5
runtime-environment5
rest-api5
sdk5
rest5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BehaviorCloud/django-softdelete
May 2018 - Dec 2021
Soft delete for Django ORM, with support for undelete.
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
pythondjangosoft-deletedjango-ormorm
CoachLogix/cronofy-python
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Python SDK for Cronofy REST API
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
apipythonsdkrestrest-api
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