Michael Dere
Director Of Engineering at Just Cracked Coffee
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Dere is a Director of Engineering and Site Reliability-minded leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling production systems, currently leading engineering at LightFeather from Renton, Washington. He blends early-career systems and operations work at Lockheed Martin and Opower with startup product experience as a former CTO and first full-stack hire, giving him a rare mix of mission-critical discipline and product velocity. Comfortable across Ruby/Rails, background job systems, and AWS-adjacent DevOps, he focuses on reliability, process improvements, and shipping customer-facing features. Outside software he runs a coffee-roasting venture, which reflects his operational grounding and habit of turning side projects into running businesses. Known on GitHub simply as “GAFFER,” he brings pragmatic leadership and a tinkerer’s curiosity to engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSME Mechanical Engineer, BSME Mechanical Engineer at University of WashingtonAssociate of Science Engineering, Associate of Science Engineering at South Seattle College
Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
93reputation
23kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (17)
react-native-ios6
activerecord6
chaining6
ruby-on-rails6
react-native-maps6
ruby6
ios6
javascript6
react-native6
music5
audio5
music-generation4
diffusers2
machine-learning2
stable-diffusion2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erprogs/recipes
May 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
erprogs/CViT
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 54 pushes in 3 months
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