Jim Derry
President at Derry Software, LLC
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJim Derry is a veteran software leader and founder with 23 years of IT and operational experience, blending four decades of military and law enforcement work with hands-on cloud application development in ASP.NET Core on Azure Government. As President of Derry Software he builds SaaS investigative tools shaped by real-world policing and intelligence needs, driving dramatic adoption and efficiency gains through pragmatic Agile delivery. He’s a full-stack C# developer comfortable with T-SQL, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, and has applied those skills to both government systems and open-source projects—contributing backend fixes and accessibility/microdata support to the long-standing tidy-html5 tool. A PMP and MSSA alumnus, Jim pairs strategic program leadership with day-to-day engineering oversight to deliver integrated, secure solutions that help agencies work smarter and faster.
23 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Grantham University
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
html10
c1110
xml9
xslt7
iqueryable6
azure6
javascript6
file-upload6
asp-net-core6
sum6
linq6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
htacg/tidy-html5
Apr 2014 - Jan 2022
The granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 635 commits, 234 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jim implemented a new `TidyReportFilter2` using raw strings to support library localization. Subsequent commits correctly used a copy of args in order to allow both filters to work, and preserved `va_list args` for both filters. The user also merged support for Aria attributes and HTML Microdata support, adding many new tags. Finally, the user added support for the 'role' attribute.
javascriptstandards
htacg/tidy-html5-tests
Feb 2016 - Jun 2021
Regression testing files and tools for HTML Tidy.
Contributions:14 PRs, 64 pushes, 33 branches in 5 years 5 months
regressiontestinghtml-parsertidyhtml-tidy
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