Derek Howard
Software Engineer at Berkeley Lab
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Howard is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and high-performance Linux research systems, currently developing a Python framework and working on Django/React projects for ESnet at Berkeley Lab. He founded and consults through Derek Howard, LLC, and leads the CHAOSS Augur project—authoring core back-end code that turned open-source sustainability research into a reusable Python library, API, and web UI. Derek blends hands-on systems administration (automated bare-metal provisioning, Slurm, Puppet) with web engineering, enabling reproducible research platforms and integrated data models. His GitHub contributions show deep back-end work integrating with the GitHub API and optimizing data pipelines for community-scale metrics. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he pairs practical DevOps/gitops fluency with an eye for simple interfaces that tame complex data. Outside core development he also applies technical creativity to photography, reflecting a strong design sensibility alongside engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Harrisburg High SchoolUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (25)
python10
flask-ask10
pygithub10
github-api10
flask10
onclick9
javascript9
command-line-interface9
clickable9
clicking9
oneclick9
command-line9
cli9
database-management8
mysql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chaoss/augur
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Python library and web service for Open Source Software Health and Sustainability metrics & data collection. You can find our documentation and new contributor information easily here: https://oss-augur.readthedocs.io/en/main/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 396 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek's initial commit sets up the project with a `setup.py` file and a basic CLI application using the Click and PyGithub libraries. The subsequent commits refactor the command line tool for gathering GitHub data, allowing it to establish a session and interact with the GitHub API by using a personal access token or providing username and password credentials. This included building commands for fetching the code data and other commands such as the download of GHTorrent MySQL dump. Further commits refactor the application for better performance and add the basic structure for many additional endpoints.
unixpythonweb-servicedata-collectionmonitoring
howderek/howderek.github.io
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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