Derrek Leute is an Infrastructure Architect with 25+ years of technical experience and a proven track record modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native, API-driven architectures. He has led large-scale modernization and training initiatives at IBM—certifying 200+ engineers and guiding migrations for clients like Fiserv, Vonage, and Box—and now applies that expertise at Mastech Digital. Comfortable across hybrid clouds (IBM, AWS, Azure) and OpenShift/Kubernetes, he bridges business and engineering with a distinctive presentation style that clarifies complex architectures for diverse stakeholders. Early-stage product experience and a decade as the first technical hire at SchoolSpring give him hands-on cred in scaling SaaS platforms, databases, and CI/CD practices. He also built department-wide agile tracking and internal tooling, showing an aptitude for operationalizing best practices as well as teaching them. Based in Montpelier, VT, he combines a creative BA in Interactive Media & the Arts with a lifelong commitment to practical learning and mentoring.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interactive Media & the Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Interactive Media & the Arts at Bard College at Simon's Rock
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Derrek Leute - Infrastructure Architect at Mastech Digital