Derek Wheelden
Senior Software Engineer at Big Room Technologies
Brunswick, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Wheelden is a senior software engineer based in Brunswick, Maine with over a decade of experience building production web platforms, internal tools, and front-end experiences for both startups and established clients. Currently at Big Room Technologies, he brings a practical mix of freelance agility and long-term product maintenance honed through prior roles at Dirigo Design and Sugarloaf. Derek pairs strong web development chops with hardware-adjacent IoT experience—contributing notable enhancements to the popular johnny-five JavaScript robotics framework, including new sensor support and LED controller integrations. Known for shipping pragmatic, well-tested features, he thrives on turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, user-facing systems while keeping an eye on embedded and robotics edge cases that most web engineers don’t encounter.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maine
English
Stackoverflow
967reputation
82kreached
15answers
7questions
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
robotics10
iot10
sys10
embedded10
sensor10
arduino10
gpio9
raspberry-pi9
i2c8
pwm8
html6
sliders6
nodejs6
responsive-design6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rwaldron/johnny-five
Nov 2014 - May 2015
JavaScript Robotics and IoT programming framework, developed at Bocoup.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek made significant contributions to the `johnny-five` library, primarily focused on enhancing its support for robotics and IoT devices. Their work included adding new sensor support such as the GP2Y0A41SK0F infrared distance sensor and the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor. They also refactored analog sensor handling and updated examples and tests to reflect the changes. Further contributions include adding support for the PCA9685 controller for LED control, and adding enhancements to the RGB LED functionality.
serialdactplinkpcduinoraspberry-pi
derekwheee/pallies
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
hapi user management
Contributions:2 reviews, 115 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years
apihapiuser-managementhapijsnodejs
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