Derek Ford
Producer at d100 Entertainment
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Ford is a versatile software engineer and producer in Atlanta with two decades of hands-on experience building highly interactive web apps, cross-platform desktop software, and embedded device services. He has applied low-level languages like C and C++ alongside web and scripting stacks (PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript) to prototype and ship products at companies ranging from Nokia research to startups and academia. At Rice University and MP3tunes he balanced scalable web backends with desktop and embedded clients, while at d100 Entertainment he now applies that broad technical background to product and production roles. Derek blends systems-level rigor with a curiosity for applied math, Linux, and agriculture, which often informs pragmatic, data-aware engineering choices. Known for learning widely and quickly, he brings interdisciplinary thinking to tough integration problems and long-lived codebases.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
pdf8
converter8
epub6
mobi5
javascript4
css3
tuple2
simulations2
abaqus2
python2
simulation2
crossword2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
InconceivableVizzini/krall
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
A single-player roguelike dungeon crawling game
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
InconceivableVizzini/dford.online
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ My personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
reactnextjstypescript
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