Derek Lemon
Co-Founder at TrendyData
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Lemon is a Co-Founder and Principal Software Engineer with nine years of cross-cutting experience building cloud-native SaaS and platform engineering solutions using Go, C/C++, Java, Python and TypeScript. He designs and implements automation-first Kubernetes patterns—treating the cluster as an SDK—to deliver scalable controllers, xDS-based Envoy configuration, and multi-cloud deployment tooling across GCP, OpenStack, AWS and Azure. Derek has shipped full-stack products from React frontends to gRPC/REST APIs and custom build tooling (Bazel/Starlark), and his open-source contributions include enhancing kOps’ OpenStack integration for production-grade Kubernetes operations. Comfortable leading engineering teams and founding startups, he pairs low-level systems expertise with product-minded execution, and recently explored fully encrypted distributed edge PaaS architectures.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleBlack Hawk College
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
kops10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
openstack10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
networking9
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
container8
cni8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 54 commits, 34 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek's commits primarily revolve around the development and refactoring of OpenStack cloud configuration within the kOps Kubernetes management project. Their contributions include integrating environment variable mappings, implementing code for retrieving OpenStack server instances, managing floating IPs, and updating dependencies. The user demonstrates expertise in enhancing the project's OpenStack integration and related tooling.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
drekle/protoc-gen-goexample
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
An example of a protoc plugin in go
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
golangprotocol-buffersprotobufgrpcprotoc-plugin
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