Derick Felsman
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at SnowcatCloud Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerick Felsman is a senior full-stack engineer and technical leader with 13 years of experience building scalable, reliable web platforms and teams from San Francisco. He blends hands-on engineering—frontend, backend, DevOps, SRE and reporting—with product and project management to spot requirement conflicts early and keep launches smooth. As a CTO/co-founder and senior staff engineer across startups and enterprises, he has repeatedly rebuilt sites and infrastructures for better maintainability, performance, and team morale. Notable strengths include migrating legacy systems to cloud-native stacks, introducing automated testing and post-mortems, and driving cost reductions through infrastructure modernization. He thrives on rapid iteration under pressure and is often the “bug crusher” who surfaces organizational gaps as well as technical fixes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. John FisherLoyola High School of Los AngelesBS, Computer Science Engineering, BS, Computer Science Engineering at UC Davis
English, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
terraform10
terraform-module10
aws-lambda10
serverless-framework10
terraform-provider10
aws10
sdk9
lambda9
api9
rating9
serverless-applications9
azure-functions9
serverless9
aws-dynamodb9
sam9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blackknight467/StarRatingBundle
Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
star rating bundle for symfony
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundleratingstar-rating
blackknight467/AYAHBundle
May 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 8 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony2symfony
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