Derek Wilson
Software Engineer at American Iron & Metal (AIM)
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Wilson is a seasoned software engineer based in Tempe, Arizona, with 17 years of professional experience and 25 years working with Python across security, backend, and automation domains. He pairs deep SIEM and log-ingestion expertise (Elastic, Logstash, Kafka) with strong T-SQL and .NET skills, having engineered 70+ API integrations and driven up to 10x database reporting improvements at American Express. Derek contributes to high-profile open-source efforts like TechEmpower’s FrameworkBenchmarks, optimizing Flask and web2py performance via concurrency and session fixes—demonstrating a practical focus on real-world throughput. Comfortable across Linux and Windows environments and fluent in automation with PowerShell and Python, he also brings hands-on hardware and networking roots dating back to building and testing systems for extreme conditions. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic mentor who co-founded an internal Python Guild and codified best practices to raise engineering craftsmanship.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
gunicorn10
web2py10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
performance-optimization10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
devops9
gevent9
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Apr 2013 - Jun 2015
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Derek focused on performance improvements and optimizing the Flask and web2py frameworks within the benchmark project. Their contributions included configuring Gunicorn with gevent workers and preload for improved concurrency and speed. Additionally, they addressed session management issues in the web2py framework, improving database interaction performance and modifying aspects of the application's models. These modifications directly contribute to the project's goal of benchmarking web framework performance.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
sp1d3rx/nonsense
Aug 2013 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes in 7 years
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