Derek Wierson
Senior Software Engineer at Yext
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wierson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications using Node, React, Angular, Express, and PostgreSQL. He has led front-end teams and architected cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise rebrands and migrations, notably moving a major bank site to Gatsby/React and AWS while accelerating deployments via Azure DevOps. At integration-focused shops he scaled automation and test coverage, managed offshore teams, and shipped hundreds of SaaS connectors, then continued that trajectory at Hearsay and now Yext. Known for combining hands-on coding with mentorship and instructional experience, he enjoys learning new patterns and pragmatic solutions that deliver measurable value to users.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Olympic CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at Galvanize Inc
Github Skills (29)
dom8
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
javascript7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
pixel7
lint7
editor7
eslint7
transparency7
eslint-plugin7
imports7
linting7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Mstanton98/JamTalk
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch, 5 issues in 9 months
DerekWW/flexbox-media-queries
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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