Derrick Carr
Senior Software Engineer at Handshake
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Carr is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications and leading cross-team initiatives, currently at Handshake after a senior engineering tenure at ActBlue Technical Services. He combines full-stack Ruby on Rails expertise with practical frontend work (React/JS), backend pipelines (Sidekiq, webhooks), and strong testing practices to deliver reliable systems that reduce operational burden and save measurable staff time. A thoughtful tech lead and mentor, Derrick is known for compassionate, insightful PR reviews, facilitating cross-team collaboration, and translating organizational values into practice. His background in marketing, email strategy, and community arts gives him a rare lens for how products communicate culture and empower small communities, education, and the arts. Outside of engineering, he runs a poetry collective and brings multidisciplinary curiosity—especially around speculative fiction—to his approach to product and team design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at De La Salle High SchoolFull Stack Web Development Software Development, Full Stack Web Development Software Development at Dev BootcampB.A. African American Studies, B.A. African American Studies at Yale University
Spanish
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Github Skills (52)
javascript10
health10
mental-health10
experiences10
rspec10
rails10
capybara10
webpack10
ruby10
react-testing-library10
html10
hound10
react10
storybook9
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/sparkjoy-api
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:28 PRs, 99 pushes, 34 branches in 1 month
sf-coyotes-2016/phase-1-checkpoint-challenge-3-teacher-refactoring
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 2 months
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