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
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Languages
- Javascript / Node.js
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
- BASH
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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
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Database
- MySQL
- ElasticSearch
- Couchbase
- DynamoDB
- MongoDB
- Athena
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Systems Administration
- Terraform
- Chef
- Docker
- Linux Systems Administration
- HAProxy
- Datadog
- Let's Encrypt
- Kibana
- Logstash
- Opsgenie
- Pagerduty
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Developer Tools
- Git
- Docker
- Portainer
- Bamboo
- VS Code
- AWS
- Terraform
- Chef
- Vagrant
- VirtualBox
- VIM
Certifications
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate2011 - 2020
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AWS Developer Associate2012 - 2021
Interests
- 3D Design and Printing
- Home Automation
- Virtual Assistants
- Electronics
- Trivia
- D&D