Dermot Haughey
Senior Software Engineer at Pear Commerce
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDermot Haughey is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 13 years building reliable, distributed systems and production services across startups and large platforms. He specializes in functional programming, Scala, and backend architecture, and has led feature design and delivery at companies including Twitter and Clearcover. Dermot excels at turning ambiguous product ideas into pragmatic, well-architected software—balancing robustness, performance, and long-term maintainability. He has hands-on experience across Go, Ruby, Scala, message queues and relational databases, and mentors engineers on both technical and leadership skills. Pragmatic and historically minded, he avoids cookie-cutter solutions and favors tooling choices that prevent projects from floundering. His background in biochemistry and research instills a methodical, experimental approach to engineering trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biochemistry, BS, Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (200)
mvc10
ruby10
streaming10
html10
rails10
finch10
unix9
reactive9
twitter9
akka9
combinator9
cache-storage9
cli9
high-performance9
rust9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hderms/qsv
Apr 2021 - May 2021
CLI tool to query CSVs through SQL
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 46 PRs in 26 days
querycsvcsvssqlcli-tool
hderms/jumpconsistenthash
Nov 2021 - May 2024
Implementation of jump consistent hashing from From the paper "A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm" by John Lamping, Eric Veach (2014).
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
hashingjumpmemoryconsistent-hasheric
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