Derek Smart
Owner at Grindaga
Fairburn, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Smart is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in API design, architecture, TDD and DevOps, currently at Liquibase and founder of Grindaga consulting. He brings deep financial‑services and payments experience from leadership roles at Payscape and as a Senior Staff Engineer at Delphix, delivering reliable backend and web systems. A practiced mentor and team builder, he improves SDLCs, trains teams, and pairs hands‑on coding with process and workflow improvements. His BFA in Computer Animation gives him an uncommon UX and visual sensibility that informs pragmatic API and product decisions. Based in Fairburn, Georgia, he helps businesses “improve their technologies one line of code at a time.”
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Computer Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Computer Animation at Art Institute of Atlanta
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Github Skills (200)
continuous-testing10
neo4j10
database-migrations10
database-administration10
neo4j-database10
package-manager10
oracle10
liquid10
validate10
database-management10
svg-files10
continuous-delivery10
sqlserver10
continuous-integration10
mysql10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mcred/jekyll-xml-source
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
Jekyll Plugin to Download XML and RSS from external sites for use in site data
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 6 months
rssjekyll-pluginxmlrubysites
liquibase/github-action-generator
Nov 2022 - May 2024
Main repository to generate GitHub Actions for liquibase-github-actions
Contributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 28 PRs in 1 year 6 months
liquibase
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