Derek Wilhelm
Project Manager at Cognizant
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wilhelm is a results-driven Project Manager with 8 years of experience leading mapping and data quality teams for large-scale mapping products, currently overseeing Mapping Data Specialists at Google Maps via Cognizant. He combines hands-on domain expertise—from road restrictions and tolling data to escalations and goldenization of critical POIs—with strong program management skills in reporting, SOP development, and scaling experimental workflows globally. Derek has a proven track record of improving data pipelines and automation, and his contributions to the open-source DDF project show backend familiarity with LDAP integration, phonetic matching, and search refinements. Colleagues describe him as precise, pragmatic, and innovative—able to hire, train, and elevate teams while delivering projects on time and under budget.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
security10
javas10
ldap10
osgi10
ddf10
java10
elasticsearch-api9
amazon-elasticsearch9
saml9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
spring-boot8
codigo7
css5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 reviews, 32 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on back-end development within the DDF framework, particularly concerning LDAP integration and security aspects. Their contributions include removing LDAP structure assumptions, allowing for nested OUs and multiple hosts within configurations. They also added support for phonetic matching and modified the spellcheck feature, indicating involvement in data processing and search functionality. The user's work also involved modifying catalog core and solr classes related to search functionality.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
derekwilhelm/alliance
Oct 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 10 months
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