Derek Lewandowski is a Data Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, data-driven solutions and full-stack applications across finance, healthcare, and e-commerce. He blends strong backend and database skills with front-end polish—having optimized build times, improved team velocity, and shipped serverless microservices and ML-driven loan approval pipelines. Derek has repeatedly led migrations and cost-saving cloud projects (including a data-center closure estimated to save $30M annually) while championing TDD, reusable infrastructure templates, and observability. Comfortable in .NET, Python, React, AWS and Azure, he pairs practical engineering with product sense, having delivered production telehealth and global virtual sales platforms under aggressive timelines. Trained in geomatics with a CS minor, he brings a quantitative, systems-oriented view to data problems that often surfaces in performance tuning and analytics automation.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) at Sandwich Secondary School
Bachelor of Environmental Studies Honors Geomatics Minor in Computer Science Minor in Management Studies, Bachelor of Environmental Studies Honors Geomatics Minor in Computer Science Minor in Management Studies at University of Waterloo
Contributions:16 PRs, 14 pushes, 11 branches in 4 days
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