Derick Naef
Principal Program Manager Lead at Impruvon Health
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerick Naef is a principal program manager lead at Microsoft with eight years of experience focused on securing edge systems, sovereign clouds, and firmware analysis in Azure. A former founder and CEO who sold ReFirm Labs to Microsoft, he combines product-led engineering with go-to-market experience that drove 6x recurring revenue growth and a successful exit. He has a long track record advising and investing in startups across IoT, security, and cloud, serving on boards and angel groups in the Mid-Atlantic. Derick’s background spans hands-on technical leadership—co-founding and scaling GroupLogic and leading mobility and access units at Acronis—to strategic roles shaping product and corporate development. Based in Alexandria, VA, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise program management and an uncommon depth in device firmware security. He holds a BA in Political Science from Duke and frequently interfaces between engineering, sales, and investors to turn technical risk into defensible product value.
8 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, BA Political Science at Duke University
Github Skills (71)
command-line-utility9
datepicker8
centrifuge8
inline8
mdm8
sarif7
api7
pdf-forms7
vue-datepicker6
fill6
cli6
dates6
flutter6
vue6
device-management6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ochimo/ochimo_test
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
ochimo/centrifuge-cli
May 2022 - Jun 2022
A command line utility to interact and query the Centrifuge API.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
queryapicommand-line-utilityinteractcentrifuge
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