Summary
Derek Nellis is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web applications and APIs, currently leading architecture and development at eBacon. He combines a strong backend foundation in TypeScript, C#/.NET, PHP, and SQL with React-driven frontends to modernize legacy systems into modular, maintainable platforms using domain-driven design. Derek has driven reliability and cost improvements through thoughtful GCP integrations, CI/CD optimizations, automated testing, and an internal component library that accelerated frontend consistency. He brings practical leadership from both engineering and creative realms—running a jazz/video-game fusion band—which informs his collaborative approach to problem solving and team-building. Known for translating complex business requirements into pragmatic, well-tested solutions, he excels at lifting code quality and developer workflows across the stack.
7 years of coding experience
Certificate, Full-Stack Web Development, Certificate, Full-Stack Web Development at Thinkful