Derek Hall
Advisor Engineering & Product Leadership at Independent
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Hall is a product-minded engineering leader and technical founder with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling software teams and platforms from zero to significant businesses. He co-founded and led engineering and product at Uvaro, growing the organization to 80 people and unifying education, career services, and AI-driven job data while driving the Lighthouse Labs acquisition and integration. Previously he helped take TribeHR from concept to acquisition by NetSuite, consistently turning ambiguous ideas into production-ready products and repeatable delivery systems. Derek excels at creating aligned teams, clear roadmaps, and the cultural and technical scaffolding needed for sustainable growth, with a particular knack for introducing early NLP/data capabilities into product. Based in Ontario, he now advises early-stage teams and is seeking a long-term leadership role where he can both shape strategy and roll up his sleeves on execution.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Carleton University
Github Skills (70)
sms9
bots9
streamable9
facebook9
twilio9
microsoft-teams9
facebook-messenger9
alexa-skills-kit9
wistia8
sdk8
playing8
dailymotion8
twitch8
player8
paths8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TribeHR/cakephp_queue
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 10 comments in 1 year 8 months
phpminimalisticcakephpjobqueue
TribeHR/tribehr.github.io
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
apiapi-documentation
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