Derek Smith
Principal Software Engineer at Altana Technologies
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Smith is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 14 years of experience designing and optimizing large-scale systems, specializing in software architecture, performance analysis, and infrastructure. He blends a strong analytical background in physics and mathematics with hands-on expertise across Go, Node, Ruby, Python and DevOps to improve monitoring, CI/CD, and runtime behavior. Derek has moved projects forward both as an individual contributor and engineering leader at companies from startups to enterprise, currently shaping architecture at Altana Technologies. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped modernize the popular git-chglog changelog generator—upgrading dependencies, tightening linting and CI, and fixing subtle CLI/template bugs. Colleagues rely on him for clear visualizations of system behavior and pragmatic, data-driven improvements that balance craft with operational quality.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
github-ci10
command-line-interface10
cicd10
command-line10
golang10
githubaction-workflow10
cli10
git9
version-control9
changelog8
testing8
golangci-lint7
eclipse6
simpleform6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
git-chglog/git-chglog
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:61 reviews, 24 commits, 38 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on updating dependencies and migrating the project to newer versions of utilized libraries and tools. This includes updating `github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2`, `github.com/urfave/cli/v2`, and `github.com/kyokomi/emoji/v2`. Further contributions involve improvements such as the correct definition of short flags and fixing template string functions. The user also added a golangci-lint action and applied linting changes, contributing to code quality and CI/CD improvements.
command-line-toolchangeloggolangjiragitlab
clok/PiSpace
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:22 commits in 4 months
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