Derrick Gatewood
Specialist Software Developer at Charles Schwab
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Gatewood is a Specialist Software Developer with eight years of professional experience currently building software at Charles Schwab from the Dallas–Fort Worth area. He progressed internally from Associate to Specialist, bringing a practical engineering mindset shaped by prior work as a computer science teacher where he honed communication and mentoring skills. Derrick holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and blends formal graduate training with hands-on backend development. His open-source contributions include substantive backend work on an Asheron's Call server emulator—implementing object interactions, spells, loot systems, and server fixes—demonstrating comfort with complex game mechanics and low-level server logic. Colleagues know him for shipping reliable server-side features and translating game systems into maintainable code, a skill that also informs his enterprise work. He pairs strong technical depth with an educator’s clarity, making him effective at both implementation and team knowledge transfer.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, English, Masters, English at The University of Texas at ArlingtonMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
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csharp10
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ACEmulator/ACE
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Asheron's Call server emulator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 46 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Derrick primarily focused on implementing and modifying back-end logic for an Asheron's Call server emulator. They added functionality to handle object interactions, specifically implementing object give requests between players. Furthermore, they contributed to the game's mechanics by adding and modifying spells and loot generation, as well as fixing server-side errors, and updating the weapon and looting systems. The commits indicate work on core game systems and mechanics.
acemulatordotnetemulatorserver-emulatormmo
dgatewood/ShapeCrush
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A bejeweled/Candy Crush inspired game done in Javascript.
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 23 pushes in 29 days
javascriptcandygamecrush
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