Derek Jansen
Contract Consultant at Apex Systems, Inc.
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Jansen is a pragmatic contract consultant and former Navy Information Systems Technician with 11 years of hands-on experience in systems administration, customer-facing support, and cloud platform operations. He specializes in Unix/Linux tinkering, back-end work (including Django project foundations), and streamlining support and billing workflows for PaaS/IaaS platforms like AppFog and SavvisDIRECT. Comfortable debugging production systems and scripting integrations—he wrote a Ruby script to update passwords across MongoDB and multiple APIs to minimize downtime—Derek blends operational rigor with user-focused support. His background includes classified Windows and Unix systems in the Navy and large-scale imaging and migration projects in healthcare, reflecting strong procedural discipline and attention to detail. Based in Missouri, he brings a quietly persistent perfectionism that surfaces in reliable, low-friction tooling and support improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Network Engineering, Not Completed, Network Engineering, Not Completed at Saint Louis Community College-Forest ParkAssociate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computers/Networking, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computers/Networking at St Charles Community CollegeNavy Journeyman-Networking Core 2735 "C" SchoolNavy Information Systems Technician "A" School
English
Github Skills (10)
python10
django10
webapp9
web-application9
web-development9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
sqlite7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CenturyLinkCloud/PublicKB
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
Help Docs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 56 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years
Contributions summary:Derek appears to be involved in the initial setup of a Django project. Their commits focus on creating essential files like `manage.py`, `admin.py`, `views.py`, `models.py`, `settings.py`, `wsgi.py`, and `urls.py`. These files indicate the foundation of the application's structure, including settings configuration, routing, and basic application logic. The user is involved in setting up the Django project structure, which is necessary to run the application.
react
casrep/frontpage
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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