Derek Hulley
Principal Solutions Architect at Zaizi
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerek Hulley is a Principal Solutions Architect based in London with 12 years of senior engineering and leadership experience and a strong foundation from an MSc and BSc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. He has repeatedly driven operational excellence and faster delivery—most recently leading engineering and architecture at Zaizi and previously creating Oracle’s AIApps platform and first fully automated deploy-and-test pipelines that cut deploy times to 15 minutes. A Certified Scrum Product Owner and AWS Solutions Architect, Derek blends cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, OCI, Spark, ELK) with pragmatic product ownership to align technical delivery to business outcomes. He’s known for translating complex systems into robust SOPs and KPIs, mentoring teams through growth, and applying a mechanical-engineering mindset to performance tuning and scalable system design. An adaptive critical thinker and negotiator, he often surfaces process improvements that reduce downtime and cost while increasing sustainability across distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc(Eng) Computational Mechanics - Masters, MSc(Eng) Computational Mechanics - Masters at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (81)
metadata10
alfresco10
docker-compose10
zip10
compose10
ecm10
docker10
docker-image10
helm9
packaging9
kubernetes9
storage9
istanbul8
api8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlfrescoBenchmark/benchmark-cmis
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 5 months
benchmarkingcmisbenchmark-frameworkbenchmarkalfresco
Alfresco/alfresco-bm-manager
Dec 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:196 commits in 3 years 7 months
load-testscalableload-testingtestingbenchmark-framework
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