Derrick Laird
Sr Software Engineer at Procurement Sciences AI
Salem, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Laird is a senior software engineer with 11 years building cloud-native backend systems, a clear preference for Go, and hands-on experience shipping microservice architectures on Kubernetes. He co-founded DocuVerse to apply AI to next-generation document management while also contributing as Sr. Software Engineer at Weave and Nozzle where he built custom ORMs, IAM, billing, and BigQuery caching services. Based in Salem, Utah, he organizes the regional Go West community and serves on the Forge Utah Foundation board, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and local tech growth. Derrick blends startup grit with production-grade engineering—designing scalable services, protobuf-driven APIs, and developer experience tooling. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic mentor who enjoys teaching as much as coding, often turning complex distributed problems into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Devmountain
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
clustering10
rust-lang10
scale10
sql10
database10
kubernetes10
text-editor10
horizontal-scaling10
mysql10
vitess10
scaling10
panic10
database-cluster10
swagger9
openapi9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MordFustang21/zed
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
MordFustang21/supernova
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 16 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 6 months
express-likeexpressnodejsfasthttprouter
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