Derek Mcquay
Security Software Engineer at Apple
Dublin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Mcquay is a Security Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, secure systems across high-performance computing and cloud-native environments. Based in Dublin, California, he has worked at Apple since 2018 after contributing to networking and security-focused teams at Tigera, Mesosphere, and Apprenda. He brings a strong backend focus—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Project Calico Go library where he improved error handling, validation, and API docs to reduce panics and increase robustness. Derek’s background in HPC and systems engineering gives him deep operational insight into distributed systems and performance-sensitive code. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from Brigham Young University and combines hands-on bug fixes with a practical, security-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese, French, German
Github Skills (12)
error-handling10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
calico10
apidoc9
validation9
validations9
api9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/libcalico-go
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Golang Calico library functions: https://www.projectcalico.org
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 16 PRs, 6 pushes in 14 days
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Calico library, focusing on bug fixes and improvements related to error handling, key parsing, and validation. Their work included removing panics, adding more descriptive error messages, and improving the validation process for network policies. They also addressed godoc issues for the API documentation.
golangcalico
dmmcquay/scrape
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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