Derek Mcburney
Head Of Technology at Evans Hunt
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDerek McBurney is a pragmatic Head of Technology with two decades of hands-on full-stack experience and 13 years in senior roles, currently leading a 25-person tech team at Evans Hunt from Calgary. He blends strategic leadership with active development—preferring clean front-end craftsmanship (now often in Svelte) and pragmatic back-end choices from headless CMSs to monoliths—while architecting solutions that favor longevity over novelty. Known for creating an inclusive, high-retention culture, he co-founded his company’s DEI committee, drove transparent career pathing and hiring initiatives that measurably diversified the team. Derek excels at translating complex technical trade-offs into clear client-facing narratives, a skill that helped win major accounts and secure strategic partnerships (Netlify, Contentful, SilverStripe). His background includes running the University of Calgary’s enterprise Drupal platform of 900+ sites and shifting its team to scalable, source-controlled processes—evidence of his knack for balancing operational scale with developer ergonomics. He’s equal parts detail-oriented builder and big-picture strategist who still enjoys getting heads-down in code between leadership duties.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Calgary
English
Github Skills (67)
identifier9
installer9
guid9
nette8
twitter-feed8
xbox8
clicking8
silverstripe8
sliders8
cms7
php7
scrollmagic7
vanilla-javascript6
mvc6
whenever6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dmcb/solar-systems
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
ThreeJS project
Contributions:6 PRs, 218 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
evanshunt/docker-php-for-ss
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
A Docker container for Apache+PHP that supports Silverstripe.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
docker-imagephp-apachephpdockerapache
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.