Derek Wiers is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and backend systems, currently architecting a large data-processing API in Elixir and Phoenix. He brings a functional-programming mindset to complex problems while remaining fluent in OOP and practical front-end stacks like React and TypeScript. Derek has led small engineering teams and shipped production features across domains from freight factoring to accessibility-focused enterprise UX, and he’s comfortable owning both technical design and delivery. He built custom state management and a DSL parser for highly dynamic React Native integrations, showing a knack for designing developer-facing infrastructure as well as user-facing features. Passionate about accessibility and clean, reusable component systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on auditability and maintainability. Based in Nevada, Iowa, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and technical leadership on teams delivering fast, reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
Information Technology--Software, Information Technology--Software at Western Governors University
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Derek Wiers - Senior Software Engineer at CareBridge