Derek Roberts
DevOps Specialist at BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Roberts is a DevOps specialist based in Victoria, BC, with 11 years of focused experience building secure, automated delivery pipelines and containerized platforms for government and health-data environments. He leads CI/CD and OpenShift/Kubernetes initiatives that replaced brittle manual processes with repeatable, audited deployments, tightened attack surfaces, and enabled faster feedback across teams. Derek has designed privacy-aware analytics infrastructure supporting hundreds of thousands of patient records, authored ETL tooling that dramatically reduced query time, and created onboarding tooling to scale DevOps capacity across projects. Comfortable bridging ops, development and policy, he’s repeatedly delivered cost- and risk-saving technical solutions in resource-constrained public-sector contexts. Off-hours he’s a guitar nerd, hinting at a methodical craft mindset and long-term curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Victoria
English, French
Github Skills (200)
env10
postgresql10
recovery10
codeql10
ministry10
rhel10
podman10
forestry10
javascript10
django10
api10
postgis10
pipeline10
decision-making10
sonarcloud10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bcgov/renovate-config
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Mend Renovate automated dependency updating
Contributions:21 reviews, 166 PRs, 200 pushes in 2 years
bcgovbcgov-nrbcgov-wlrsnodejswlrs
HDCbc/e2e_oscar
Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 113 pushes in 3 years 1 month
exportssqlgatewaye2eimports
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