Derek Rada
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Avalanche
Bandon, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Rada is a Senior Infrastructure Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, cloud-native systems across AWS, GCP and Azure. He specializes in Kubernetes automation, Terraform, ArgoCD/Helm, and building operators and exporters in Go to drive reliable, observable infrastructure at scale. His background spans system administration, backend development and SRE work—having migrated large environments to EKS, built multi-region HA CDNs, and run federated Prometheus stacks with HA alerting. At Avalanche he implemented Intel SGX-enabled workloads and cross-cloud validator stacks, reflecting a practical focus on high-security, high-availability platforms. An active contributor to the TypeScript/Node open-source ecosystem, he has improved API generation and type handling in the well-known tsoa project, showing care for maintainability and developer experience. Based in Bandon, Oregon, Derek enjoys tackling unfamiliar challenges and turning complex operational needs into automated, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Oscar F. SmithHigh SchoolAssociate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Tidewater Community College
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Github Skills (13)
generic-types10
api-rest10
rest-api10
typescript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
openapi10
api-design10
restful-api10
typescript-types10
prometheus6
prometheus-alertmanager6
slack6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lukeautry/tsoa
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Derek made significant contributions to the `tsoa` project, which aims to build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs. The commits reveal work on enhancing generic type handling within the codebase, notably affecting how request and response objects are managed. They also addressed issues related to Typescript formatting and documentation updates, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality and usability of the API generation process.
apicompliantnodejsrestrest-api
Dirrk/TorrentRSSDownloader
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:99 commits, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 11 months
torrent
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