Derek Smart
Owner at Grindaga
Fairburn, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Smart is an experienced software developer and owner of Grindaga with 12 years in the industry, specializing in API design, architecture, PHP, TDD and DevOps for financial services. He has led and mentored engineering teams across roles from Lead Developer to Senior Staff Engineer and Director of Software Engineering, combining hands-on coding with SDLC and team training. Derek helps businesses of all sizes modernize web and mobile applications and improve development workflows, often tackling both technical architecture and user experience. Based in Fairburn, Georgia, he brings a creative background in computer animation to pragmatic engineering, which informs a strong UX sensibility alongside robust backend systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Computer Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Computer Animation at The Art Institutes
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Github Skills (200)
continuous-testing10
neo4j10
database-migrations10
database-administration10
neo4j-database10
package-manager10
oracle10
liquid10
validate10
database-management10
svg-files10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
buildkit10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mcred/jekyll-xml-source
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
Jekyll Plugin to Download XML and RSS from external sites for use in site data
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 6 months
rssjekyll-pluginxmlrubysites
liquibase/github-action-generator
Nov 2022 - May 2024
Main repository to generate GitHub Actions for liquibase-github-actions
Contributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 28 PRs in 1 year 6 months
liquibase
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