Summary
Derek Jamison is a Principal Cloud Application Architect at AWS with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web-scale applications and platforms. He blends hands-on engineering, team leadership, and startup founder experience—previously CTO and co-founder of a VC-backed e-commerce automation SaaS and CTO of a high-traffic marketplace that scaled to over a million monthly visitors. Derek began writing web servers and registering domains in the late 1990s, has run production services over 56kbps links, and still enjoys building hardware-software projects like Arduino multi-room thermostats. His background as a patent attorney for major clients (Google, VMware, MasterCard) gives him a rare combination of deep technical IP knowledge and practical cloud architecture. Based in Las Vegas, he’s known for shipping resilient, API-driven systems on AWS and turning complex integrations into operationally simple solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Doctor of Law (JD), Intellectual Property Law, Doctor of Law (JD), Intellectual Property Law at The George Washington University Law School