Derek Strickland
IT Support Associate II
Denton, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Strickland is an IT professional with a B.S. in Computer Science and a decade of hands-on experience supporting large-scale operations, currently serving as IT Support Associate II at an Amazon fulfillment center. He combines frontline help-desk and equipment coordination expertise with military-tested communications skills, having run battalion-level support and managed IT services for 400+ users. Transitioning toward software development, Derek has coursework in C/C++, algorithms, calculus, and is actively sharpening Python and DevOps skills through a boot camp and open-source contributions. Notably, he contributed backend and DevOps fixes to HashiCorp's Nomad—improving logging, TLS handling, and consul-template integrations—demonstrating an ability to move from operational support into scalable infrastructure work. Colleagues know him for clear written and verbal communication, adaptability to feedback, and a practical approach to accessibility, evidenced by a North America–used policy he authored for blind/low-vision workstations.
10 years of coding experience
West Rusk High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of North Texas
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
nomad10
consul10
go10
vault10
kubernetes9
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
apidoc8
api8
terraformer8
terraform8
system-design7
asp-net6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:386 reviews, 223 commits, 152 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the Nomad workload orchestrator by improving logging output, implementing TLS flag overrides for meta commands, and fixing Vault E2E TLS configurations. They also exposed Consul template configuration parameters to Nomad jobspec authors and operators. Furthermore, the user refactored the reconciler code, including supporting disconnected clients with several code changes related to node status transitions.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
DerekStrickland/hashibox-nomad
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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