Derek Graham
Senior Software Engineer at Evvnt
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Graham is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of professional experience and a 12-year focused track record delivering web applications that drive operational results. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL/MySQL and JavaScript, and pairs that stack with practical AWS know-how to run production systems reliably. Derek has built CMS, e-commerce, and bespoke web apps for organizations from startups to enterprise clients such as Evvnt, GeoTix, Priority Health and Steelcase, and has run his own development consultancy and e-commerce storefront. He brings both hands-on implementation skills and an owner’s perspective from founding Gray Dog Interactive and Gray Dog Outfitters, which informs pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering decisions. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he’s passionate about crafting user-friendly solutions that solve real problems and often blends legacy language expertise with modern Rails-driven architectures.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
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Github Skills (65)
apple-pay8
ruby8
jquery-plugin8
testing8
dsl8
jquery7
render7
binding7
stripe7
php7
rack6
cms6
presenter6
cakephp6
activemodel6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mynorth/Tray
Sep 2015 - Oct 2019
A Composable Shopping Cart for SOA Style E-Commerce Platforms.
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 2 months
shoppingecommercecommercesoaplatforms
evvnt/site_impact_plugin
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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