Derek Rose

Profile

I have over fifteen years of experience in development, solutions architecture, systems administration, IT, and product management focused on developing systems that make use of Amazon Web Services. I am passionate about problem solving and learning; my belief is that there's nothing I can't learn, and I'm seeking a position that will allow me to bring this experience and passion to your team.

Experience

Elm Street Technology

Eugene, Or

Vice President of Systems Architecture

Jun 2020 - Present

  • Oversee the ongoing IDX Broker development roadmap.
  • Beginning IDX Broker's transition from virtualized monolith to containerized services.
  • Designed and am overseeing combined ETL, pipelines, auth, SRE, networking, and billing systems.
  • Planning and am implementing IT consolidation for ongoing M&A activity.
  • Design of multi-org data lake.
  • Oversaw the successful rollout of sales-tax compliance on multiple systems.
  • Ongoing AWS systems oversight, cost monitoring, and expansion.
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • MySQL
  • Datadog
  • ElasticSearch
  • Couchbase
  • Avalara

IDX LLC

Eugene, Or

Vice President of Engineering

2015 - Jun 2020

  • Designed and helped develop ETL v2 pulling 550+ near-realtime data sources.
  • Gamified internal password security.
  • Set up ELK stack based log and audit trails.
  • Oversaw local IT infrastructure.
  • Developed an internal disaster recovery service.
  • Led technical due diligence when IDX acquired Agent Marketing.
  • Implemented least privilege SSO access model for AWS using Terraform.
  • Led technical side of the company through our acquisition by Elm Street Technology.
  • AWS
  • HAProxy
  • MySQL
  • ElasticSearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Couchbase
  • Terraform

Director of Engineering

2012 - 2015

  • Tripled team size in 18 months after investment from Main Street Capital Corporation.
  • Designed data models and application architecture for the second, cloud native, version of IDX Broker's SaaS Application.
  • Refactored ETL system to be more resilient against changing source data.
  • Helped coordinate the migration of clients and oversaw sunsetting of IDX Broker v1.
  • Modernized (for 2015) systems management and deployment with Chef.
  • Developed logging platform using Cloudwatch and Lambda.
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Memcached
  • Chef
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Node.js

IDX Broker

Eugene, Or

Various

2005 - 2012

  • Started as first developer for a bootstrapped company.
  • Designed and developed first in-house SaaS application.
  • Designed and developed first in-house ETL system for MLS data.
  • Grew and led the development team to 6 staff members.
  • Assisted in due diligence when IDX acquired Agent Evolution.
  • Grew IDX Broker into the 4th largest real estate network.
  • Began using AWS in 2006, developing an in-house SDK as Amazon didn't offer one yet.
  • Led technical team through investments from Main Street Capital Corporation and transition to IDX LLC.
  • Linux
  • PHP
  • AWS
  • Code Deploy
  • GIT
  • BitBucket
  • AWS Code Deploy

Main Street Capital Corporation

Houston, Tx

Technical Consultant

Jun & Aug 2018

  • Technical diligence on a potential purchase.
  • Presentation of diligence information to legal team.

Odysys Inc

Bend, Oregon

Technical Consultant

As Needed 2015 - 2019

  • Advised on infrastructure improvements and cost savings.
  • Advised on performance issues.
  • Advised on move to serverless infrastructure.
  • Provided emergency disaster recovery assistance.
  • AWS
  • PHP
  • Node.js

Extracurriculars

Toys for Tots drive at IDX

An annual IDX tradition that I started in 2009. Resulted in over ten thousand dollars in toys purchased locally and donated.

Eugene Web Developers meetups

A popular local monthly meetup of the Eugene Oregon developer community. Have served as both host and presenter at different times.

Eugene Blockchain and Hyperledger meetups

Hosted a rotating monthly meetup about Blockchain technologies and applications.

Led annual IDX charity trivia team

Organized team participation in an annual fundraiser for Ophelia's Place.

Learning Lunches

Initiated and managed a weekly employee lunch and learn program.

Education

BS in Biology

Oregon State University

Graduated 2005

Contact

  • 541-556-0697
  • derek@dereksrose.com
  • dereksrose.com
  • Eugene, Oregon, USA

Skills

    • Languages
    • Javascript / Node.js
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Ruby
    • BASH
      Amazon Web Services
    • AES
    • Athena
    • CLI
    • Cloudfront
    • Cloudwatch
    • Cloudwatch Logs
    • Cloud Trail
    • CodeDeploy
    • DynamoDB
    • EC2
    • Elacticache
    • ELB
    • EMR
    • GuardDuty
    • IAM
    • Kinesis
    • Lambda
    • Organizations
    • RDS / Aurora
    • Route53
    • S3
    • SNS
    • SQS
    • VPC
      Database
    • MySQL
    • ElasticSearch
    • Couchbase
    • DynamoDB
    • MongoDB
    • Athena
      Systems Administration
    • Terraform
    • Chef
    • Docker
    • Linux Systems Administration
    • HAProxy
    • Datadog
    • Let's Encrypt
    • Kibana
    • Logstash
    • Opsgenie
    • Pagerduty
      Developer Tools
    • Git
    • Docker
    • Portainer
    • Bamboo
    • VS Code
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Chef
    • Vagrant
    • VirtualBox
    • VIM

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
    2011 - 2020
  • AWS Developer Associate
    2012 - 2021

Interests

  • 3D Design and Printing
  • Home Automation
  • Virtual Assistants
  • Electronics
  • Trivia
  • D&D