Derek Elder
Senior DevOps Engineer at Openpath Security Inc.
Yorba Linda, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Elder is a Senior DevOps Engineer with six years of professional experience building and automating infrastructure and deployment pipelines for security- and operations-focused products. He currently architects and maintains cloud-enabled fleets of access control units at Openpath Security, driving cross-repository changes, automated provisioning tests, and operational observability with CloudWatch. Derek blends full-stack experience—React/TypeScript front ends and backend services—with deep AWS operations (CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, NLB, IoT Core) and tooling like Ansible, Terraform, and JFrog. He has a track record of taking ownership of complex projects from Mirth Appliance modernization to enterprise CI/CD improvements and static analysis programs for large codebases. Based in Yorba Linda, CA, he pairs hands-on scripting and monitoring skills with a practical focus on reliability and automation that reduces manual toil. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-native practices.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Transfer Studies, Associate of Arts - AA, Transfer Studies at El Camino CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at South Torrance High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
English
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Github Skills (28)
omdb-api10
discord-js10
youtube-api10
discord10
plugin10
discord-bot10
plex10
minecraft9
pm29
nodejs9
pocketmine9
go6
ansible6
docker-image6
testing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Gelean/itad-api-client-ts
Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
A typescript api library/client for IsThereAnyDeal.
Contributions:31 PRs, 32 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
apiclient-librarytypescript-apiapi-librarytypescript
Gelean/website
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 178 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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