Derek Entringer
Director, Mobile Engineering at Merkle
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Entringer is a mobile engineering leader with over 20 years in software and more than a decade focused on building and scaling cross-platform mobile experiences. He currently serves as Director of Mobile Engineering at Merkle and has led mobile teams and architecture at Vaporstream, Isobar, and other firms, driving encrypted messaging, streaming, and enterprise apps across Android, iOS, TV, and React Native. Derek blends hands-on Android architecture and CI/CD automation with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and setting long-term refactor and platform goals. His background includes founding a widely used Flash video player and delivering video streaming SDKs for major media clients, evidencing deep experience in media, security, and performance-sensitive apps. Based in Chicago, he’s equally comfortable translating UX requirements into robust mobile systems and optimizing release pipelines to keep cross-platform teams synchronized.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Aided Drafting 3D Modeling and Animation, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Computer Aided Drafting 3D Modeling and Animation at ITT Technical InstituteBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Interactive Media Development & Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Interactive Media Development & Design at Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago
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Github Skills (7)
actionscript6
publish6
canvas6
facebook6
kotlin2
android2
android-library2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
derekentringer/jetgrav
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
derekentringer/runfast
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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