Derek Elder Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, Us

- Worked on the Static Cloud IP application and was responsible for updating nine different repositories to support it, including the Control Center App, Open Admin App, Openpath API, and several mechanisms used in ACU (Access Control Unit) deployment and configuration.- Developed several CloudWatch alarms and dashboards to help capture and visualize operational issues.- Developed an automated mechanism to test provisioning ACUs and catch potential issues before they reach production.- Worked on maintaining and updating services to support the entire fleet of ACUs.New Technologies Used: React, React Native, TypeScript, Raspbian, Aws (CloudFormation, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, Network Load Balancers, Global Accelerator, Billing/Cost Explorer, CloudWatch, IoT Core, IAM), Boto, JFrog, Make

Madison, Wi, Us

- Worked on a three month POC testing Dremio as a data lake provider and business intelligence tool for several different databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, and S3.- Worked with the US Geological Survey on the National Water Information System (NWIS) modernization efforts on several different projects (AQCU and MLR) primarily utilizing Vue.js, and GitLab pipelines. Helped fix bugs, introduce new functionality, and write documentation.- Helped set up and test a variety of static and software composition analysis tools that will end up supporting six hundred repositories and eleven million lines of code across the US Geological Survey.New Technologies Used: Python, Debian/Ubuntu, GitLab, AWS (Lambda), Serverless Framework, SQL Developer, VMware Workstation, Dremio, Tableau, SonarQube, Codacy, Snyk, WhiteSource, Rundeck, Liquibase

- Developed a personal website (www.elderek.com)- Developed a Discord bot (https://github.com/Gelean/deldbot)- Took the "AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2020" course on Udemy to become more familiar with AWS tooling.- Wrote over 400,000 words in my fictional writing project.New Technologies Used: Vue.js, BootstrapVue, Vuetify, Nuxt, Express.js, Atom, Visual Studio Code, Insomnia, Docker, Unity, AWS (EC2, S3, and Route53)

Remote First, Us

- Took over as Mirth Appliance project lead in 2016 and was responsible for laying out the roadmap, improving the code, and training a team in Bangalore to take over the Mirth Appliance project.- In addition to maintaining Roundup, other responsibilities included maintaining several other internal web applications and Node.js tools used for automating deployments, onboarding new users, enhancing company security, and generating data analytics.- Helped bridge the CI/CD gap in the software pipeline by crafting a script to download a zip file from Jenkins, bundle Ansible scripts and Appliance code into a software update, and made it available to testers and customers.- Gained more experience with AWS tools, Terraform, and Git.New Technologies Used: Git, Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Terraform, Payara, Salesforce, and AWS (CloudHSM, Alexa SDK)

- Developed an in-house Java web application called Roundup using the Play Framework, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Elasticsearch. Roundup was designed to organize data for the Mirth Appliance inventory of 4000 Appliances and be easier to navigate and more secure.- Spent a majority of the time working on the Mirth Appliance product, a LAPP web application used to run and deploy Mirth software. Worked under the lead developer to write front end code using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and AngularJS. Also troubleshot back end PHP, PostgreSQL and CentOS issues.- Helped transition most Bash shell scripts to Chef and later to Ansible.- Documented the software architecture and coding practices on the Confluence wiki, ran Nessus security scans against the software, created new hardware images with Packer for hardware Appliances, and packaged software updates for customers.New Technologies Used: Bash, Vim, HTML, CSS, Java, Play Framework, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, Elasticsearch, Ebean, JavaScript, AngularJS, JQuery, Node.js, NPM, jQuery, PHP, Laravel, Slim, PostgreSQL, pgAdmin, SQLite, Glassfish, Apache, Nginx, OpenVPN, Maven, Chef, Ansible, Packer, Selenium, Zabbix, SVN, Cornerstone, Nessus, VMware Fusion, Sublime Text, CollabNet Subversion Edge, CentOS, Mac OS X, OAuth2, Balsamiq Mockups, FileZilla, Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ IDEA, and Eclipse

- Answered customer calls and e-mails. Jumped on conference calls to troubleshoot issues with other team members. Resolved hundreds of support tickets across the entire Mirth product line.- Wrote up FAQs in SugarCRM and the company Confluence wiki.- Escalated issues as needed to senior developers in Jira.

Washington, Dc, Us

Typical desk duty jobs, shredding documents, printing project status forms for project managers, organizing files, creating PowerPoint slides for meetings, taking inventory, and P2 Primavera work.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Transfer Studies

High School Diploma