Derek Montgomery
Rails | React | Front-End
Partnering with high-standards individuals to build beautiful, performant, accessible, and exciting software with humans in mind.
Recent Work Experience
- Feature-building for O'Reilly's online learning platform, which serves millions of users
- Wrote a proposal and drafted wireframes for a generative AI project, and presented to Project, Product, and Engineering leadership
- Feature-built for Dispatch Connect, a logistics platform used by organizations to manage their own fleet
- Route planning, optimization, and visualization; real-time ETAs; status notifications; driver insights and comms
- Served fifteen individual contributors as people leader of the Front-End Development department of iFIT
- Communicated regularly with project and team leads to cultivate a consistently high-performing FED force
2017 - 2020
Senior Front-End Developer
- Developed training to introduce team to new web APIs (e.g. IntersectionObserver, CSS Grid, WebAssembly), debugging tools, and lawful and empathic web accessibility
- Mentored junior developers in first steps into coding for the web platform
- Lead developer for API architecture, banking network integration, payment processing, security, cron systems, Twilio integration, and admin portal
- Laid foundation for a growing and thriving company
Education
- Branding & marketing agency vision, process, and management
Tech
- HTML | CSS | JavaScript | React | Ruby on Rails | SQL | React Native | Node.js | TypeScript | Web Accessibility
Skills & Competencies
- Full digital product lifecycle leadership
- People leadership
- Semantic, well-structured, scalable code
- UI / UX best practices
- Code reviews
- Unix & servers
- RESTful service architecture
- Data visualization
- Performance optimization
- Web accessibility
- Unit/integration testing
- Data security & PCI compliance
What I've Built
- Design systems and component libraries
- Telephony & SMS/MMS systems (Twilio)
- WebRTC real-time video conferencing
- Mobile apps
- Maps integrations
- Search algorithms
- Charting and graphing
- Workflow tools
- RESTful APIs
- Payment systems
- Complex reporting & data aggregation systems
Brands Served
- Case New Holland
- Caterpillar
- Cedars-Sinai
- Daimler
- Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
- Herman Miller
- Kaiser Permanente
- Learning Care Group
- NordicTrack
- Reinsurance Group of America (RGA)
- Symantec
- Thomson Reuters
Interests
- Church | Family | Video gaming | Taekwondo | Tech