Summary
Derek Rose is a Senior Software Engineer in Phoenix with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems and leading teams through architecture transitions. He has hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, microservices, RabbitMQ/MassTransit, MongoDB and API gateways, and is currently focused on systems engineering at Black Mountain Software after multi-year roles modernizing monoliths. A natural servant leader, he pairs technical confidence with strong EQ to influence and mentor peers while driving practical solutions that save time and reduce cost. Earlier roles as an IT manager and retail co-owner show a history of operational leadership and process improvement that informed his engineering pragmatism. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous problems into dependable, auditable systems and to shepherd migrations from legacy stacks to scalable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSIT, Computer Software Engineering, BSIT, Computer Software Engineering at University of Phoenix