Derek Sorkin
Board Member at DarkSky Colorado
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Sorkin is a sales leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling sales organizations in developer tools and developer productivity, currently serving on the boards of DarkSky Colorado and Colorado Music Bridge. He has held senior sales roles at GitHub, Sentry, and Abstract, where he drove ARR growth, reorganized teams into specialized functions, and led cross-functional license transitions that added multimillion-dollar revenue. Derek combines hands-on enterprise selling with sales operations, engineering, and development of predictable, visible go-to-market motions for growth-stage companies through his advisory practice. Based in Denver, he brings international experience from leading GitHub’s Asia Pacific sales and a track record of hiring and structuring teams for scale. Collected from both startup and larger company environments, his strengths lie in turning complex developer-focused products into repeatable enterprise revenue. An uncommon detail: he pairs board-level governance with frontline sales playbook design, making him effective across strategy and execution.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Public Policy, B.S. Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
gatsbyjs7
backup6
github-enterprise4
gatsby4
documentation4
sentry3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johndbritton/hello-world
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 1 day
dsorkin/pdf-rendering
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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