Derrick Petzold
Staff Engineer at Rakuten
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerrick Petzold is a Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and operating high-volume web platforms and AWS infrastructure. He blends backend development in Python and Java with infrastructure-as-code expertise using Terraform and Python CDK, having supported marketing and influencer systems at Rakuten and homecare SaaS at ClearCare. His background ranges from low-level C services at EarthLink to Django-based product work and ad-platform services at Disqus, giving him a strong end-to-end perspective on reliability and performance. Known for pragmatically automating cloud operations, he often moves between writing production services and codifying infrastructure, which helps teams ship quickly while keeping systems maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (195)
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sentry10
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terraform10
vpc10
infrastructure10
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cleaner10
terraform-module10
flask10
monitoring10
zappa10
error-logging10
django10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dpetzold/molokai
Jun 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 years
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dpetzold/kube-resource-explorer
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Explore your kube resource usage and allocation.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 5 months
kubernetesallocationkubeexplore
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