Derrick Burns
CEO at Parthenian, LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Burns is a seasoned technology executive and serial operator with over two decades of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading engineering organizations as CEO, CTO, and VP of Engineering. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, service meshes, and machine learning with a strategic knack for operationalizing architecture—evidenced by large-scale re-architectures at Salesforce and a HIPAA-compliant Kubernetes platform for Tidepool. Derrick has shipped real-time systems in C++ and Go, led API and backend platforms serving millions at Lonely Planet, and founded a hedge-fund-grade analytics stack that mined social media signals for market prediction. He mentors executives as an executive coach, holds patents in NLP and 3D graphics, and brings Princeton and Stanford pedigree to practical product delivery. An active open-source contributor, he improved AWS integrations in popular Scala tooling, showing his comfort across languages and ecosystems. Based in California, he blends entrepreneurial rigor with enterprise-scale execution and a talent for turning complex technical risk into board-level confidence.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Qualified for PhD, Computer Science (Systems), Qualified for PhD, Computer Science (Systems) at Stanford UniversityBSEE, Computer Science, BSEE, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (8)
aws-sdk10
amazon-s310
scala10
sql-db9
dynamodb9
amazon-ec29
ec9
amazon-dynamodb9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
seratch/AWScala
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Using AWS SDK on the Scala REPL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 1 comment in 10 days
Contributions summary:Derrick primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the `awscala` library, particularly related to Amazon S3, DynamoDB, SimpleDB, and EC2. They addressed issues with object summaries, batch gets, SimpleDB domain handling, and added new methods to interact with AWS resources. Their contributions involved enhancing existing functionalities, improving performance, and expanding support for various AWS services.
aws-sdksdkreplscalaaws
tidepool-org/cluster-shared
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Creating K8s config repo.
Contributions:139 PRs, 2167 pushes, 141 branches in 10 months
k8s-configconfig-repok8skubernetesconfig
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