Derek Wyatt
Founding Member Of Technical Staff at Astrus
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wyatt is a seasoned cloud architect and founding member of technical staff with 17 years of experience building resilient, globally distributed systems and shipping production-quality software. He’s led architecture and small, high-performing teams at companies like Oracle/NetSuite and Arctic Wolf, designing microservices, Kubernetes deployments, Kafka streaming, and eventually-consistent data models for real-time security and SaaS platforms. Currently at Astrus, he’s applying that depth to revolutionize analog circuit design while continuing to write significant portions of the system code. A pragmatic mentor and relentless executor, Derek combines Scala expertise (including tooling work like vim-scala enhancements) with a crash-only, automation-first operational mindset that keeps teams efficient and systems robust.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science Specialist in Physics, B.Sc. Computer Science Specialist in Physics at University of Toronto Scarborough
Github Skills (4)
vim10
syntax-highlighting10
scala10
string-interpolation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
derekwyatt/vim-scala
Feb 2011 - May 2016
My work on integration of Scala into Vim - not a ton here, but useful for me.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:105 commits, 35 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily worked on enhancing the integration of Scala into Vim by modifying syntax highlighting and indentation rules. Their contributions include implementing features like string interpolation, improved handling of paired parentheses and brackets, and adjustments to the indentation logic for various Scala code constructs, including `if/else` statements and XML. They also introduced a testing framework and addressed import sorting, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
scalatonvim
derekwyatt/vim-fswitch
Oct 2010 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years 1 month
cppvimvim-pluginneovimswitching
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