Derek Pastor
Solutions Engineer at Verkada
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Pastor is an Enterprise Solutions Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-managed infrastructure and security solutions for large organizations. He blends software engineering (Java, Python, Node.js, TypeScript) with infrastructure expertise—Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Linux, networking protocols and Windows Server—to deliver scalable systems to thousands of users. At Verkada he translates complex government and compliance requirements into practical, auditable cloud-managed security deployments, drawing on prior roles building RESTful APIs, embedded Java integrations for medical devices, and full-stack prototypes. A former RIT teaching assistant and researcher, he pairs clear technical communication and documentation with a knack for troubleshooting production issues under regulatory constraints. Based in New York, Derek favors pragmatic automation and version-controlled workflows to accelerate releases while maintaining operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computing and Information Technologies, Bachelor's degree Computing and Information Technologies at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of TorontoFrancis Lewis High School
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Github Skills (26)
python8
html6
firebase6
angularfire6
angularjs6
css6
scroll6
jquery6
firebase-authentication6
javascript6
rpg5
dnd-tools5
squad5
google-keep4
computer-vision3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Dr-D12345/dynamic-static-builder
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Dr-D12345/dr-d12345
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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