Derick Winkworth
SONiC Evangelist at Dell Technologies
Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolDerick Winkworth is a seasoned network and software engineer with 12 years of experience translating complex networking problems into practical products and strategies, currently serving as a SONiC Evangelist at Dell Technologies. His career spans hands-on roles from data communications in the Air Force to product and solutions leadership at Juniper, Plexxi, and Forward Networks, blending deep protocol-level knowledge with product thinking. He has a strong track record of rethinking integrations and data models—his Data Services Engine concept influenced OpenStack's Congress—and has driven ML-based feature extraction and patentable IP while in Brocade’s CTO office. Based in Port Washington, WI, he has operated a professional home office for over eight years, enabling effective remote technical leadership and rapid prototyping. Comfortable bridging engineering, architecture, and product management, he excels at turning operational state into actionable data and intuitive workflows for network operators.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Information Technology, N/A, Information Technology at VariousLewiston-Porter Senior High SchoolN/A, Computer Programming, N/A, Computer Programming at Air Force Community College
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Github Skills (59)
networking9
security9
browser9
routeros9
reverse-engineering9
network9
bgp8
ospf8
netlink8
ipv68
radare28
subnet8
libc8
sdn8
unix7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtoad/nrelabs-curriculum
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Learn network automation, all in your browser.
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
netmikobrowseropenflownetwork-automationnapalm
cloudtoad/build-frr-netconf
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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