Derek Greentree
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nederland, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Greentree is a Principal Software Engineer based in Nederland, Colorado, with a 25-year engineering background and 16 years in senior roles at leading tech companies. He currently drives systems and architectural work at Microsoft after shaping product and infrastructure at Verily, Google, and GitHub, where he built user-facing analytics, A/B experimentation platforms, and revenue-driving CRM tools. Derek combines hands-on coding (ETL, real-time analytics, resilient recurring jobs) with people leadership—managing teams, mentoring engineers, and running hiring processes. He has a track record of launching high-scale consumer features and crowd-sourced data pipelines to support ML models, plus founding a consultancy where he handled sales, proposals, and client delivery. Known for translating complex business needs into robust designs, he also brings entrepreneurial instincts from building Leftwise LLC and scaling Lijit’s platform to hundreds of millions of monthly page views. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, he blends deep technical breadth with pragmatic product and operational judgment.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
derekgr/leds
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 1 day
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