Derek Foreman
Senior Software Developer at Collabora
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Foreman is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience building software, firmware, and hardware across the full stack—from kernel drivers to GUIs—and currently contributes to Collabora from Canada. He has a strong track record in open-source and embedded systems, having worked on research-driven projects for the National Research Council and commercial R&D at Samsung Research America and Endless. Derek thrives on large, multidisciplinary projects and has collaborated closely with physicists, chemists, and psychologists, gaining cross-domain insights that inform pragmatic engineering solutions. He also builds tooling to automate code generation and bridge disparate build systems, reflecting a focus on developer productivity and reproducible builds.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Manitoba
Github Skills (78)
md510
mojolicious10
sdl10
windows10
freedos10
persistence10
iso10
boot10
unlock10
distro10
msr10
mbr10
gpt10
rufus10
uefi10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ManMower/weston
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 7 months
ManMower/weston-mirror
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Reference compositor for Wayland (mirror)
Contributions:28 pushes, 13 branches, 2 comments in 4 months
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