Will Deraad
Engineering Manager - Identity Platform, Data Engineering, & DevOps
Durango, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWill Deraad is an engineering manager who builds high-performing teams and reliable infrastructure across identity, data engineering, and DevOps platforms. With a background at Sandia National Laboratories and FullStory, he blends deep systems and cloud deployment experience with hands-on leadership, mentoring engineers through production launches and optimizations. He has driven significant operational improvements—such as automating multi-environment deployments and cutting developer build time equating to ~80 saved developer days annually—while leading core services and developer experience initiatives. Based in Durango, Colorado, he favors pragmatic solutions that scale and has a track record of shepherding complex, secure systems from prototype to production.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (7)
postman10
grpc10
golang9
javafx6
thread-safety6
atomic6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
fullstorydev/grpcui
Dec 2022 - Oct 2023
An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman
Contributions:1 review, 1 issue in 10 months
grpcpostmangolang
teamlumos/lumos-cli
May 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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