Walter Derezinski
Founder & Principal Architect at DaringWay
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Derezinski is a founder and principal architect with 10+ years of senior cloud, DevOps, and AI strategy experience who helps organizations translate technology choices into measurable business outcomes. He specializes in right-sized solutions—knowing when to apply AI versus automation or process optimization—and has deep FinOps and AWS architecture expertise to ensure cost-effective scaling. Walter's clients include Toyota, IBM Watson, The Weather Company and other Fortune 500s and private equity-backed firms, where he drives rapid post-acquisition value creation and platform modernizations. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs hands-on infrastructure and test automation work (including contributions to the IBM Cloud Terraform provider) with product-centric delivery and compliance-minded design. Unusually for a founder, he blends decades of systems engineering roots with an MBA, enabling him to align architecture decisions tightly to unit economics and ROI.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Master of Business Administration at Kennesaw State University
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Github Skills (23)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
go10
test-automation10
amazon-web-services9
database-testing9
amazon-s39
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
elasticsearchquery8
aws-elasticsearch8
amazon-elasticsearch8
postgresql8
readline6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
Sep 2020 - May 2021
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 19 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Walter primarily worked on testing and implementing features for the IBM Cloud Terraform provider. Their contributions involved adding and updating test cases, specifically focusing on the functionality of IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets and Cassandra databases. They also modified existing test configurations to improve coverage and maintainability. The user demonstrated skills in infrastructure-as-code testing using Terraform and the Go programming language.
softlayeribm-cloudprovidersterraform-registrybluemix
daringway/gitpod-workspace-base
Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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