Derric Gilling
VP & GM, API Platform BU
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerric Gilling is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and commercializing API-first platforms, currently serving as VP & GM of the API Platform BU at WSO2. He founded and scaled Moesif—an API analytics and monetization platform used by enterprises like Siemens and PandaDoc—and led its acquisition into WSO2, where he now runs the business unit. Derric blends deep systems engineering roots from Intel (L2 cache architecture and pre-silicon validation) with hands-on startup product and go-to-market experience, making him fluent across engineering, product, and revenue. A frequent conference speaker and O’Reilly co-author on API strategy, he helps organizations productize APIs and extract business value from telemetry. Based in San Francisco, he advises early-stage companies in data observability, QA automation, and offline mobile networking, reflecting a curiosity for practical infrastructure that powers resilient products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E, Computer Engineering, B.S.E, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (200)
orientdb10
rdbms10
operator10
middleware10
ecosystem10
tencent10
api-monitoring10
api10
saas10
html-email10
nodejs10
indexing10
servlet10
assemble10
apim10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Moesif/moesif-netcore-example
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Moesif/moesif-servlet
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Moesif Servlet SDK for API Monitoring, Analytics, and Monetization.
Contributions:14 releases, 37 reviews, 102 commits in 5 years 9 months
moesifjava-servletservlet-filterservletfilterlogger-middleware
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