Derek Menteer
Senior Software Engineer at Polygon.io
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Menteer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Spring, Texas with a four-year professional track record focused on cloud-native and distributed systems. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles to senior engineering and cloud architect positions at companies including HashiCorp and Polygon.io, bringing practical experience in service discovery and secure RPC. At HashiCorp he contributed notable gRPC TLS enhancements to the widely used open-source Consul project, improving secure service connectivity and testing infrastructure. Derek blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise, routinely working on configuration, service registration, and discovery chains in production-grade systems. He holds a Computer Science degree from Sam Houston State University and has a background spanning startups and enterprise teams, which gives him a pragmatic approach to solving infrastructure challenges. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who favors robust, secure designs that bridge developer ergonomics and operational reliability.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Sam Houston State University
Github Skills (14)
mtls10
consul10
go10
tls1210
tls1310
grpc10
libtls10
convoy9
envoyproxy9
env9
service-mesh9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
devops8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:268 reviews, 113 commits, 359 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the implementation of gRPC TLS features by adding a dedicated gRPC TLS port, and managing the interaction between the gRPC and gRPC TLS servers. They also modified the agent configuration, service registration, and discovery chain functionalities to support the use of the new gRPC TLS features. The user made changes to the testing infrastructure, incorporating these new features and ensuring that the service could be properly discovered and connected via a gRPC TLS endpoint.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
hashi-derek/consul-helm
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Helm chart to install Consul and other associated components.
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 months
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