Derrick Oswald
Software Engineer
Muri bei Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorDerrick Oswald is a software engineer with an electrical engineering background and over three decades of experience in software design, development, testing, deployment and troubleshooting. His career has spanned CAD, manufacturing, GIS, utilities, chemical production, architectural, civil and mining domains, with a long-standing focus on CIM and Spark before shifting into big data and machine learning for cloud security. Derrick combines deep legacy systems knowledge with modern cloud-native practices and has contributed full‑stack work to notable open-source projects like OpenJSCAD.org, improving browser compatibility, UI elements and core engine functionality. Based in Muri bei Bern, Switzerland, he brings practical expertise in integrating complex systems and resolving merge conflicts across large codebases. Now effectively retired but still active in open source, he offers rare institutional memory of pre-modern computing eras alongside contemporary security and data engineering skills.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
html9
css9
git8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jscad/OpenJSCAD.org
Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
JSCAD is an open source set of modular, browser and command line tools for creating parametric 2D and 3D designs with JavaScript code. It provides a quick, precise and reproducible method for generating 3D models, and is especially useful for 3D printing applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Derrick's commits primarily focused on updating and maintaining the OpenJSCAD.org project, which involves JavaScript for creating parametric 2D and 3D designs. The contributions include merging updates from the upstream master branch, indicating involvement in integrating and potentially resolving conflicts. The code changes suggest the user worked on UI elements, browser compatibility, and bug fixes, across multiple files, while also updating the core engine's functionality.
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derrickoswald/CIMApplication
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
CIM J2EE application with resource adapter access to Spark.
Contributions:30 releases, 687 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
j2eeemradaptersparkscala
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