Derek Kershner
Sr. Director & Head Of Engineering at Scrum Alliance
Oregon, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Kershner is a technology executive and hands-on engineering leader with 8 years of formal experience and over a decade of product and analytics roots, currently serving as Sr. Director & Head of Engineering at Scrum Alliance. He has founded startups and served as CTO, architecting and operating high-availability, cloud-native marketplaces (99.99% uptime across regions) using AWS, TypeScript, CDK, serverless patterns and event-driven microservices. Known for driving teams to deliver early and reliably, he blends long-term architecture thinking with a strong DevOps culture—fully automated CI/CD, standardized repos and developer-first practices. Derek is an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing the ShopifySharp .NET library with GraphQL support and metafield handling, showing cross-stack fluency from .NET to modern JS frameworks. Combining a finance background from the University of Oregon with product-oriented analytics experience, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to scaling engineering organizations.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Finance at University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business
Github Skills (13)
authorizations10
shopify-api10
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
shopify10
authorization10
dotnet-core10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
netcore9
graphql9
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nozzlegear/ShopifySharp
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
ShopifySharp is a .NET library that helps developers easily authenticate with and manage Shopify stores using Shopify's GraphQL API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 112 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the ShopifySharp library by adding functionality to handle Shopify API interactions. Their work focused on enhancing the data models (entities) to include metafields across various Shopify entities like products, orders, and customers. The user also implemented features related to proxy request authorization, enabling more secure communication. Furthermore, the user added a GraphQL implementation and included a .NET Core 2.1 target framework, suggesting continued updates for the project's compatibility.
net-librarydotnetshopify-storesfsharpshopify-apps
dkershner6/dkershner.com
Aug 2018 - Dec 2024
Professional / Tinkering website for Derek Kershner
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 211 PRs in 6 years 4 months
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