Derek Montgomery

Rails | React | Front-End | AI

Partnering with high-standards individuals to build beautiful, performant, accessible, and exciting software with humans in mind.

Pitched AI in Content and led its front-end build, achieving 4.5x adoption, 1.6x engagement, and 5.6x upvotes versus its predecessor
Improved Core Web Vitals of search client: LCP (54%), loading time (32%), FCP (58%), INP (46%), CLS (7%)
Built agent-agnostic plugins and skills (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) that documented and automated the team's manual weekly processes
2024 O'Reilly Hackathon: Most Impactful for the Business (Runner Up), Best Engineering (Runner Up)

Promoted from Senior Front-End Developer to lead and mentor a team of fifteen engineers
Hired half the team directly and mentored two of those hires to lead engineer promotions
Developed technical training on new web APIs and co-founded an engineering mentorship program

Built giving and payments platform acquired by Cass Information Systems in 2019
Architected API, banking network integration, and PCI-compliant payment processing

Promoted from Front-End Developer within a year; consulted for enterprise clients on front-end best practices
Grew a single RGA engagement into an Agency-of-Record relationship