Derek Rodrigues Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

- Engineering manager of the Smart Camera Cloud Backend Team- Scaled my team from 5 to 9 backend engineers- Proactively manage, coach, and mentor my team members- Leading the team to rearchitect and scale our software systems using AWS- Very active in architecture, design, code review, and monitoring- Onboarded my team to on-call duties- Effectively utilized Scrum to manage the team's workflow and shield the team from interruptions- Use Jira Plans to provide software schedules (yes, it's possible with agile projects)- Occasional contributor to the Ruby on Rails, Go codebases- Contributor to the overall engineering process and culture e.g. introduced an architecture forum for engineers to present their designs for feedback- SRE/DevOps approach to software development (you build it, you own it)

New York, Ny, Us

- Director of the "Platform" engineering org with 6 engineering managers reporting to me- Hired and grew the team in key areas and helped mentor new engineering managers- Hiring and team-building during a period of rapid, company-wide growth- Worked closely with cross-functional partners including: product, agile coaches, contracting firms in Ukraine and Brazil - who provided engineers to support burst velocity where needed- Developed quarterly roadmaps in Jira- Worked with direct reports to develop technical roadmaps

New York, Ny, Us

- Brought visibility, observability, engineering rigor to two important legacy code bases- Started a new backend engineering team, hired, and grew the team to 6+ full-time engineers with 2 contractors- Led the team to deliver a new authentication and authorization system (Firebase JWT) for user-facing web applications. This included two new micro services written in Go.- Initially a contributor but eventually fully focused on being engineering manager and coach- Introduced 30/60/90 plans and onboarding epics for new hires as a way to improve a difficult onboarding process, adopted across the greater engineering organization- Practiced agile/scrum and fostered a cohesive and collaborative distributed team

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Develop native cross-platform C++ client VoIP stack for Android and iOS• Development work on a highly-scalable SIP-based VoIP server platform• Develop various backend C++ servers (Linux - CentOS) that deliver tens of thousands of mobile push, SMPP, and MMS messages• Develop REST web service API's for voice platform (LAMP) and recently a project in Go-lang• Technologies: C++, Android (Java, JNI, NDK), PHP, Python• ScrumMaster and Technical Lead for the BSE (Backend Servers Engineering) team

Miami, Fl, Us

• V1.0 developer on cross-platform Remote Desktop Access and Online Backup (using Amazon S3) products for Windows and Mac. Major contributor to architecture and design.• Developed C++ browser plugins for Firefox, IE, and Chrome; Windows and Mac OS X platform.• Inventor/Co-inventor of 9 technology patents• Quality-driven development with unit testing, integration testing, smoke/nightly builds.• Technologies: primarily C++ (Windows and Mac OS X), C# (web services), JavaScript.

Us

• Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a suite of highly-scalable middle tier data servers for an IP telephony platform, serving tens of thousands of active users• Strong emphasis on quality with code reviews, unit testing, nightly builds, and integration testing• Design/development lead of several projects leading to promotion to Senior Software Engineer• Technologies: primarily C++ on the Windows server platform, JavaScript (Yahoo Widgets)

• Responsible for the design and development of user-interfaces for an IP telephony voicemail messaging system on the Windows server platform.• Used an assortment of technologies (ISAPI, ASP, COM, Java/JSP) to produce a quality finished product.• Technologies: C++, Java, Active Directory, LDAP.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science