Derek Howard
Software Engineer at Derek Howard, LLC
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Howard is a software engineer with a decade of full-stack experience, currently building a Python framework to unify applications into a single data model at Berkeley Lab / ESnet, with hands-on work in Django and React. He also runs Derek Howard, LLC, providing software engineering consulting and photography services. His background includes HPC Linux systems administration and DevOps, automating research computing workflows with Puppet, oVirt, Slurm, JupyterLab, PostgreSQL and Python. As creator and former technical advisor of CHAOSS - Augur, he led the development of a Python/Flask/MySQL stack and a web API to visualize open source health metrics, with Vue on the frontend. An active OSS contributor, his early Augur work included setting up the project, building a CLI with Click and PyGithub, and enabling GitHub data collection via API sessions. He holds a BA in Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Harrisburg High SchoolUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (27)
python10
flask-ask10
pygithub10
github-api10
flask10
onclick9
javascript9
command-line-interface9
clickable9
clicking9
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oneclick9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chaoss/augur
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Python library and web service for Open Source Software Health and Sustainability metrics & data collection. You can find our documentation and new contributor information easily here: https://oss-augur.readthedocs.io/en/main/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 396 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek's initial commit sets up the project with a `setup.py` file and a basic CLI application using the Click and PyGithub libraries. The subsequent commits refactor the command line tool for gathering GitHub data, allowing it to establish a session and interact with the GitHub API by using a personal access token or providing username and password credentials. This included building commands for fetching the code data and other commands such as the download of GHTorrent MySQL dump. Further commits refactor the application for better performance and add the basic structure for many additional endpoints.
unixpythonweb-servicedata-collectionmonitoring
howderek/howderek.github.io
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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