Derek Misler
Senior Software Engineer at Docker, Inc
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Misler is a Senior Software Engineer based in Virginia with over a decade of experience building and migrating large-scale front-end systems for startups and growth-stage companies. He has led major architecture migrations—most recently driving Patreon’s move to Next.js that cut LCP by 55%—and now contributes at Docker where he focuses on platform-scale front-end reliability and developer productivity. Derek blends front-end architecture, tooling, and observability (feature flags, DataDog, Sentry, PagerDuty) with hands-on component library and testing migrations, and has a strong track record of mentoring engineers and designing onboarding programs. Earlier roles show deep full-stack and DevOps experience: monorepos, server rendering, CI/CD, React Native apps, and AWS deployment patterns. His background in graphic design and print gives him a distinct product-minded attention to detail and user-facing polish.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design at Appalachian State University
less/sass, git/github, java, c#/.net, c/c++, node, python, coldfusion, php, js frameworks (react/redux, aurelia, bootstrap, etc.), javascript/jquery, html5/css3
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Github Skills (33)
data-api10
react-component10
redux9
docker9
fetch9
component-library9
api9
react9
documentation8
react-component-library8
react-components8
data-management7
html6
dimensions6
filter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
derekmisler/derekmisler.com
Mar 2015 - Aug 2024
Repository for personal website, built with Next.js
Contributions:52 PRs, 417 pushes, 52 branches in 9 years 7 months
next-jsreactnextjs
derekmisler/Pages
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:161 pushes in 1 year
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