Derek Rushing
Founder at Project vNext
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Rushing is a founder and principal engineering leader with 11 years of experience helping companies scale by solving alignment and architectural problems rather than just swapping languages. He runs Project vNext from Austin, offering Compass fractional principal leadership for teams that need architectural north stars and Catalyst AWS-native modernizations that migrate Node/Rails/Python SaaS into lean Go platforms. Derek blends hands-on systems design, technical roadmap alignment, and modernization strategy with practical delivery—using AI-accelerated, principal-led execution rather than staff augmentation. His background spans senior infrastructure and principal engineering roles at DailyPay, Amazon, and CS Disco, giving him deep operational experience across cloud-native observability and cost-optimized architectures. He often surfaces non-obvious risks early—like misaligned standards and invisible technical debt—that unlock predictable scaling and speed for engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
N\A, General Studies, N\A, General Studies at Rose State CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (3)
minecraft6
diff-tool4
json2
Github contributions (5)
drush211/Speedruns
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 34 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
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derek-rushing/Speedruns
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 31 branches in 3 months
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