Derek Lewis
Software Engineer at OpenINF
Summary
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RockstarDerek Lewis is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building delightful web experiences and developer tooling. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Node.js and the AMP Project, improving documentation, cross-platform tooling, localization, and SEO-focused site features. Comfortable across the full stack, Derek has modernized API docs with syntax highlighting, hardened markdown linters, and strengthened UI navigation and accessibility. He writes with an emphasis on practical developer empathy—aiming to make the web easier to use for both end users and fellow engineers. An understated detail: his open-source work often targets the less glamorous but highly impactful areas (docs, linters, localization) that materially improve developer and user productivity.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
11reputation
8kreached
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Github Skills (20)
markdown10
javascript10
website-development10
ampl10
templater10
template-engine10
google-amp10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
css9
build-automation9
documentation9
localization8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/node
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 10 commits, 43 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Derek's contributions focused on improving the tooling and documentation within the Node.js repository. They updated the Markdown linter, ensuring it was cross-platform compatible and included usage information. The user also migrated the API reference documentation to use highlight.js for proper syntax highlighting, replacing an older SHJS implementation. Furthermore, they addressed a module-related issue, fixing a check for package.json files at the volume root.
windowsnode-jsjavascriptlinuxruntime
ampproject/amp.dev
Oct 2016 - Feb 2020
The AMP Project Website.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 23 PRs, 114 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the AMP Project Website. Their contributions involved making the breadcrumb navigation more robust, fixing broken links, and adding localization support. They also incorporated the `gettext` function for title translations and escaped HTML within title tags. Further work included updating blog links and modifying structured data to enhance search engine optimization.
project-websitejekyllamp
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