Derek Keeler
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Keeler is a seasoned software engineering leader with over a decade of experience building DevOps, ALM, and developer tooling for teams at Microsoft and in the gaming industry. As Principal Software Engineering Manager in Vancouver, he leads infrastructure and performance tooling for Java engineering, blending hands-on automation (CI/CD, Azure resource management, SDK work) with coaching and cross-team collaboration. He has deep experience in C/C++/C#, PowerShell, and Azure, and a track record of shipping both cloud services (Application Insights, OpenJDK build support) and game systems (character customization and build pipelines for major titles). Comfortable across Windows and Linux, he excels at creating deployment workflows and integrating custom tooling into complex ecosystems. Known for mentoring small teams and driving reproducible release processes, he also brings a practical background in geospatial data systems and a personal passion for whiskey and family-first priorities.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University of CalgaryTransfer Credit Computer Science, Transfer Credit Computer Science at Mount Royal University
Github Skills (19)
programming-language10
python10
inspect9
family-tree8
gnome8
genealogy8
virtual-environment8
lan7
applet7
docker6
minecraft6
lego-mindstorms6
docker-container5
docker-image5
axe4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derek-keeler/gamatrix
Nov 2020 - Sep 2024
Inspect GOG DBs and report the games in common between them
Contributions:4 PRs, 100 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 10 months
dbsgamescsgogogreport
derek-keeler/zz_world_minecraft
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Docker container for running vanilla Minecraft servers on your local LAN.
Contributions:18 PRs, 14 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 11 months
minecraftdocker-imagedockerminecraft-vanillaminecraft-servers
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