Derek Gathright Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Minted is building a best-in-class marketplace for independent artists to express their creativity and connect with the world. As an engineering manager focused on our frontend technologies, my job is to manage the teams of engineers who do everything from writing the foundational bits of our web platform, to building complex web applications that generate over $170 million in annual revenue.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a software engineer specializing in web performance, my role consisted of investigating latency concerns, building services to track metrics, and implementing solutions for both performance and dev experience issues.

San Francisco, California, Us

Front is building a world-class communications application, so you can fall in love with email all over again. While the frontend team is small (3-5), it has the important mission of turning novel designs into reality using bleeding edge web technology paired with established best practices. As a Senior Software Engineer, I spent much of my time building a highly performant web-based communications application from scratch, using TypeScript, React, Redux, WebSockets, and a whole lot more. This also included working in our node.js API, and maintaining our Angular-based legacy application.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

The Quid web team transforms million of data points in to beautiful visualizations of information powered by big-data analytics. As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, my time has been spent building a world-class data visualization platform from scratch. Beginning with a simple search into a seemingly infinite dataset, Quid's users are able to generate rich visualizations and actionable insights that lead to industry influencing decisions. Closely collaborating with Product & UX, I've been heavily involved in building everything from the search interface, to the WebGL visualization engine, the Rails API, and everything in between.More specifically:- Was part of the small team that rewrote Quid's Three.js-based visualization engine to a highly performant in-house built WebGL engine- Led an initiative to give users the ability to save & restore visualization states, resulting in an ability to export WebGL to PowerPoint- Was the engineering lead on the Search UI team, which included an integration of React & ES6+- Gave technical talks for external audiences to demonstrate Quid's amazing technology platform- Championed team goals in testing, quality, innovation, effective communication, and developer happiness- Authored dozens of documents & RFCs detailing thoughts, proposals, modernizations, and a vision for Quid's future- Spent most of my time working in JavaScript, CoffeeScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, and Python. Also using libraries & tools such as Node.js, Rails, Backbone, jQuery, React, JSX, Webpack, Babel, Karma, Yarn, and Docker.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

YUI is a popular open-source JavaScript library, and as a senior engineer working on the project, my time was spent working on variety of tasks. This included building CSS & JavaScript modules, Node.js developer tools, developer advocacy, and overall... just making the library as feature-rich and awesome as possible.Some of the larger projects I worked on:- Developed and released the Button component, which is now part of the Pure CSS library (http://purecss.io/).- Enhanced the ScrollView widget, improving performance, adding functionality, and introducing test coverage- Developed YUI Benchmark, a JavaScript testing toolkit for web and Node.js applications.- Worked on YUI's Continuous Integration efforts, which included automated testing of functionality, performance, and code quality.- Wrote over 50 blog posts for yuiblog.com, and represented Y! at various conferences, hackathons, and recruiting events.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Engineer, develop, and maintain Yahoo! websites using PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Coding commonly involves using Yahoo! proprietary MVC framework (PHP, XML) and YUI (JavaScript). Additionally, acted as evangelist for Yahoo! Developer Network, presenting Y! technologies at conferences and writing blog posts.Projects involved with: - Yahoo! Media - Develop modules using PHP, XML, and JavaScript to be used on every Y! Media property (News, Sports, Finance, etc...) - Yahoo! Shine - http://shine.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! TV - http://tv.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! Movies - http://movies.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! Entertainment - http://entertainment.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! Primetime in No Time - http://primetime.tv.yahoo.com/

- Architected & developed social media website mycatholicvoice.com. - Evaluated and assessed software needs for development tools and web services.- Developed multimedia transcoding queue and delivery platform for audio, video, images, documents, and downloads. - Interviewed & hired additional in-house development resources and managed development tasks with outsourced & contract resources. - Developed REST API interface for interaction with MyCatholicVoice data.- Designed relational database schema. - Wrote specifications for development projects. - Managed advertising platform and designed ad delivery network. - Configured & managed development/production servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Edition 4, Ubuntu, and Windows. - mycatholicvoice.com was built using the following technologies; Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS), Linux, Apache, LigHTTPD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP5, Kohana PHP framework, Code Igniter PHP framework, FFMpeg, jQuery, & ADODB.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Develop internal/client web projects & interactive marketing campaigns. Traffic analysis reports for client websites & email campaigns. Utilize SEO strategies to design search engine optimized websites. Maintain & troubleshoot employee computer systems and Linux servers. Develop API clients to transfer data between Gragg and affiliate systems. Technologies used; Linux, Apache, PHP5, Javascript, HTML, CSS, & MySQL.

Managed Nuvio’s corporate website, customer portal, and 200+ partner websites. Acted as technical contact for Nuvio's engineering department. Developed user interfaces for Voice over IP services and company intranet. Designed, developed, & managed API interface for remote interaction with between partners and the Nuvio system. Technologies used; Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, CVS, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases.