Richard Derr
Senior Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Derr is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently advancing front-end architecture at Fidelity Investments while maintaining a broad curiosity across distributed systems and design systems. Self-taught and disciplined, he has progressed internally from Associate to Senior Engineer, demonstrating strong independent project ownership, time management, and delivery. His recent focus is Vue.js and modern front-end practices, complemented by practical experience in Go and Java as noted in his GitHub bio. A Mathematics and Physics graduate from UMBC, Richard brings analytical rigor to product design and problem solving. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs an outdoorsman's stamina with a tinkerer’s mindset, often exploring tooling and cross-stack integrations beyond his day-to-day role.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (154)
programming-language10
interpreter10
spider10
crawler10
golang10
graphql-tools10
database10
angular10
cli10
chatroom10
goplus10
crawling10
go10
package10
odin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
z5labs/bedrock
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
A framework for building other frameworks
Contributions:67 releases, 179 reviews, 241 PRs in 1 year 8 months
frameworkgogolang
z5labs/pflag
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
A crate implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
Contributions:12 releases, 58 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
crateposixrustflagsgnu
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