Derek Mortimer
Consultancy Area Technical Lead at CECG
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerek Mortimer is a London-based consultancy technical lead with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native platform and SRE solutions across media, fintech and energy sectors. He combines hands-on engineering (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform, observability stacks) with leadership coaching to help teams scale platform engineering practices and improve developer experience. Derek has delivered large-scale streaming and ingestion systems (Kafka/Akka at OVO) and re-architected monitoring and PaaS platforms to drive cost, reliability and deployment improvements at organisations like BuzzFeed and Thought Machine. He’s a vocal advocate for immutability, automation and strong team culture, and actively champions equality and diversity initiatives within the workplace. Unusually for a tech lead, he pairs deep academic grounding (PhD in Computer Science) with practical delivery, bringing protocol-level thinking to platform design and operational accountability. Outside work he’s known for a fondness for cakes and tabletop RPGs, a small hint at his collaborative, creative approach to problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (110)
streaming10
quest10
reactive10
akka10
high-performance10
concurrent10
sbt10
pulumi9
javascript9
dotnet9
akka-streams9
alfred-workflow9
gcp9
python9
actor-model9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ovotech/ovo-live-kafka-backup
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
ecsecs-clusterkafka-backupawskafka
pyoio/cv
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:33 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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