Summary
Derek King is a seasoned full stack engineer with a decade of experience delivering scalable web and backend systems. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he currently contributes at Thru, migrating the frontend from .NET Blazor to React, enforcing code standards with ESLint and Prettier, and building an ASP.NET REST API to support a React-based UI, while migrating the CI/CD pipeline to GitHub Actions. He specializes in database performance, designing scalable SQL Server schemas to mitigate deadlocks and optimize long-running queries. Earlier, he ran Rust game servers across North America, Europe, and Australia, managing a team of 10 moderators and engineers for 600+ concurrent users. His broader background spans Flutter mobile provisioning, AngularJS web apps, and Java REST work for data migrations, reflecting strong cross-stack versatility. He is an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oklahoma