Derek Perez
Founder & Principal Technologist at Thrive Hive Counseling
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDerek Perez is a veteran technologist and founder with 17 years of experience building products, teams, and developer ecosystems across Google, X (the Moonshot Factory), and startups. He specializes at taking systems from zero to one, having led experimental GSuite products, rebooted Google's Protobuf organization, and expanded Protobuf & gRPC communities at Buf. Now leading Limbic Systems, he consults with professional service firms to deploy AI that drives measurable growth while also serving as fractional CTO/COO for mission-driven teams. A hands-on engineer and DevOps contributor, his open-source work includes improving Protobuf build and CI reliability (Bazel, Windows CI) and robustness fixes to CouchDB client libraries. Known for coaching C-suite and executive teams, he pairs deep technical fluency with facilitation skills that accelerate adoption and delivery. Based in California, he brings a rare mix of product instinct, infrastructure craft, and operational leadership.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (15)
javas10
couchdb10
javascript10
api10
bazel10
apidoc10
build-automation10
cicd10
java10
testing10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
json9
nodejs8
logging8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:216 reviews, 2 commits, 79 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to improving the build and test infrastructure using Bazel. Their work includes migrating Java tests to Bazel, creating a protoc release zip, and ensuring proper execution on Windows CI environments. Additionally, the user addressed build issues, updated dependencies (rules_python), and integrated testing methodologies to enhance the overall development workflow.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
apache/nano
Sep 2011 - Jan 2012
Nano is now part of Apache CouchDB. Repo moved to https://GitHub.com/apache/couchdb-nano
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on enhancing the CouchDB view API within the `nano` library. Their contributions included modifications to how query parameters are encoded, ensuring proper handling of various data types within view keys, and also fixing merge conflicts. Additionally, the user integrated a logging module into the project for improved debugging capabilities. The changes reflect an effort to refine the library's API and improve its robustness.
apachenanodatabaseapache-couchdbpouchdb
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