Derek Sanford
Chief Technology Officer at Lydian
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Sanford is a technology leader and co-founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling payment and loyalty platforms for physical retail. As CTO of Yombu he helped pioneer biometric payments—enabling fingerprint-based checkout and rewards across thousands of customers in the DC/MD/VA region—and has since continued to lead engineering organizations as VP of Engineering and CTO roles. He combines hands-on software engineering roots with executive strategy, guiding teams from early product-market fit through regional deployment and rapid growth. Derek has led both consumer-facing product platforms and backend architectures, with prior senior engineering and tech lead roles dating back to 2006. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he is comfortable bridging merchant operations, hardware integration, and cloud services to deliver seamless POS experiences. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who brings entrepreneurial rigor to complex payments and loyalty challenges.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Boston University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
ansi6
team-explorer6
discord5
gitlab-api2
grommet2
visual-studio2
gitlab2
shamir-secret-sharing2
codebase1
migration1
mysql-database1
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
flannel-dev-lab/cyclops-api
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
flannel-dev-lab/flannel-framework
Dec 2018 - Nov 2021
Flannel Core Framework
Contributions:15 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
flannelframeworkcore-framework
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