Derek Anderson
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Anderson is a technology leader with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, blockchain protocols, and Web3 infrastructure, currently steering engineering and product at Bless after senior roles at Akash Network and Walmart Global Tech. He designed a novel protocol using discreet selection mathematics to evenly distribute work across P2P networks and architected a tandem layer-1/2 stack to improve scalability and resilience. As CTO and founder he led the build and deployment of a 1,000,000+ node P2P network across 50+ countries and helped raise $8M for the Blockless Protocol, blending hands-on Rust, Go, and JavaScript development with strategic fundraising and team leadership. Derek’s background spans high-availability federated GraphQL at Walmart, developer tooling in the Cosmos ecosystem, and large-scale observability and edge compute projects, giving him deep cross-domain systems expertise. He combines pragmatic engineering with a hacker’s mindset—sharing code openly—while advising startups on zero-knowledge and blockchain security. Based in Sioux Falls, he’s known for building remote, globally distributed teams and shipping infrastructure that pushes decentralization into production.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion US West Web Developer Boot Camp, Certificate of Completion US West Web Developer Boot Camp at Mount Marty UniversityAAS Telecommunications Technology/Technician, AAS Telecommunications Technology/Technician at Sanford-Brown Institute-New York
Github Skills (127)
windows10
recoiljs10
fastify10
javascript10
linux10
exchange10
js10
preact10
macos10
nodejs10
ios-application10
evaluation10
react-like10
genesis10
redux10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
blessnetwork/blessnet
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
THE CLI - is the fastest way to build distributed edge apps
Contributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 15 PRs in 4 months
cli
ovrclk/akash-ghaction-updatedeploy
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
update a deployment with the repository deploy.yml
Contributions:5 releases, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
deploymentupdateymldevops
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