Derik Linch
Staff Software Engineer at BridgeCare
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerik Linch is a Staff Software Engineer based in Denver with a decade of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. He blends an entrepreneur’s mindset with deep full‑stack expertise—particularly Ruby on Rails backends and React frontends—having shipped major features, migrations, and integrations at companies like FireHydrant, CirrusMD, and BridgeCare. Derik’s strengths include technical leadership, guiding architecture and ADRs, and mentoring teams while running agile ceremonies and delivering on complex integrations (Zendesk, Jira, Zoom). A CU Boulder economics graduate and Galvanize bootcamp alum, he pairs business insight with hands‑on engineering and consulting experience through his firm Dark Lynx. Outside work he’s an “upstart at heart” who brings practical product coaching to small businesses, and he’s known for tackling thorny data migrations and entitlement/billing systems that quietly keep products running.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Web Development Immersive, Certificate Web Development Immersive at Galvanize IncBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish
Github Skills (139)
multithreading10
testing10
rspec10
rack10
owl10
scene10
manager10
hide10
contrast10
server10
entity9
golang9
mta9
dkim9
one-liner9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dlinch/night-owl-vscode-theme
May 2018 - Oct 2020
🌌NIGHT OWL: A VS Code dark theme for contrast for nighttime coding
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
night-owlvisual-studio-codeowlnightvscode
dlinch/debunk
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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