Summary
Derek Mayer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems across fintech, communications, and IoT domains, now contributing to PayPal from Minneapolis. He has a track record of shipping production services at companies including Zoom, Sleep Number, and C.H. Robinson, and has experience automating cloud provisioning and scaling with AWS tooling. Early work on assistive web apps and real-time biometrics at a research lab shows a knack for blending front-end UX with signal processing and hardware integration. Comfortable in Agile teams, Derek moves between libraries, backend services, and automation scripts to solve practical problems and improve developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Minnesota-Duluth
English