Derek Petersen
Production Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Petersen is a production engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating container services, most recently at Meta after five years driving Amazon ECS at AWS. He specializes in containers, Docker, and Go, and has contributed bug fixes, Windows build improvements, dependency updates, and a pause-container teardown feature to the widely used amazon-ecs-agent. Derek blends backend and DevOps expertise to enable customers to run container workloads at scale, with a history of improving build tooling and test robustness. Based in Seattle, he pairs systems-level thinking with practical engineering—often focusing on reliability and reproducible builds—stemming from a Computer Engineering background at Iowa State.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityDes Moines Area Community College
Github Skills (6)
docker10
agent10
go10
dockers10
testing9
aws9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 131 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to tests and the agent's functionality. They addressed issues in the agent's event handling, particularly within Windows builds. The contributions included updating the code to support the latest agent version and updating vendored dependencies. In addition, the user made improvements to the build scripts, and configuration, and added a feature related to pause container teardown.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
petderek/amazon-ecs-agent
Dec 2016 - Jul 2022
Amazon EC2 Container Service Agent
Contributions:6 PRs, 256 pushes, 228 branches in 5 years 7 months
ecsservice-containerec2amazon-ec2agent
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