Derek Skeba
Lead Engineer II at KPMG US
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Skeba is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building cross-compatible, scalable web applications and payment systems, now leading engineering at KPMG US. He brings deep hands-on fluency in Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python, and a proven track record integrating Bitcoin, PayPal, and other online payment technologies. Derek combines startup entrepreneurship—cofounding CostBrain and founding Crawler Builder—with enterprise delivery, moving from developer to Lead Engineer within KPMG. He has built everything from mobile Cordova apps and OCR invoice import pipelines to custom web crawlers and LAMP/DevOps stacks, showing a rare blend of product-minded engineering and infrastructure ownership. Based in Grand Rapids, he pairs academic rigor (strong CS background) with practical innovation, such as automating crawler code generation and designing JSON Web Token security for APIs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.9, Computer Science, 3.9 at Michigan Technological UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
English
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Github Skills (18)
ibm-watson8
sdk8
gradle8
ibm-cloud8
java7
pygame6
watson6
top-down5
survival5
python4
game-development3
fsm-library3
unity3d2
fsm2
state-machine2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dskeba/dusty
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 1 month
python-librarypythongamepygamepython-pygame
dskeba/unity-state-machine
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
An intuitive Unity3d finite state machine (FSM). Designed with an emphasis on usability, without sacrificing utility.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
state-machineusabilityfinite-statefsm-libraryfsm
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