Deryk Wenaus
Co-founder, CTO at Retreat Guru
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDeryk Wenaus is a founder and CTO with 15 years of experience building web products and marketplaces, currently leading technology at Retreat Guru, a global spiritual retreat platform he co-founded in 2014. He combines early hands-on coding (from Commodore 64 BASIC to HyperCard) with formal study in digital multimedia and consciousness, bringing a rare blend of design sensibility and systems thinking to product architecture. Based in Nelson, British Columbia, he has run his own web development studio and transitioned that entrepreneurial grit into scaling a mission-driven startup. Deep personal experience in meditation, Buddhist studies, and plant-medicine traditions informs his user-centered approach to building tools for spiritual communities. Known for steady, long-term commitment, he moved from CEO to CTO to focus on engineering leadership and sustainable platform growth. His background suggests an unusual mix of creative design, technical craftsmanship, and lived domain expertise in wellbeing and retreat culture.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy at Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe InstituteNova Scotia College of Art and DesignConsciousness Studies (Independent Studies), Consciousness Studies (Independent Studies) at University of Waterloo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (195)
testing10
acceptance-testing10
phpunit10
integration-testing10
static-analysis10
bdd10
phpstan10
unit-testing10
codeception10
php10
static-analyzer10
nette9
laravel9
trellis9
tooltips9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
retreatguru/rbg-connect
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:10 reviews, 59 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years 4 months
retreatguru/rbgtheme
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
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