Derek Watring
Software Engineering Manager at tastytrade
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Watring is a software engineering manager and full-stack product engineer with a decade of experience building and greenfielding brokerage products in financial services. He has progressed from intern roles to leading front-end and product teams at dough and tastytrade, shipping account, trading, and mobile apps for industry-disrupting zero-commission brokerages. Derek blends hands-on development across web, API, and mobile stacks with project leadership and talent acquisition, and now guides engineering strategy as a manager. His background in engineering research and renewable energy adds a methodical, experimental bent to product work, and he maintains a public resume and GitHub for transparency into his craft.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Renewable Energy Systems, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Renewable Energy Systems at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignCollege Preparatory, College Preparatory at Lakes Community High School
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quietfoundation/iex-api
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Unofficial SDK for using the IEX API
Contributions:20 PRs, 29 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
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dwatring/Memo-Calendar
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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