Derek Bekoe
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Bekoe is an engineering leader based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams focused on cloud tooling, test automation, and CI/CD. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to prominent Azure projects such as azure-cli and azure-cli-extensions—where he improved test coverage and modernized CI pipelines, static checks, and integration tests. Trained as an MEng from the University of Bristol, Derek blends rigorous engineering discipline with practical automation skills to reduce release friction and improve code quality. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors that preserve CLI behavior while making tests and build stages more maintainable, and he’s comfortable navigating both code and DevOps workflows to deliver reliable cloud developer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (MEng), Master of Engineering (MEng) at University of Bristol
Github Skills (22)
python10
testing10
bash10
azure-cli10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
automations10
jmespath10
cli10
test-automation10
github-ci9
json9
pylint9
yaml9
githubaction-workflow9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:37 releases, 1059 commits, 1747 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying tests for the Azure CLI, specifically concerning resource group, network, virtual machine, and container service functionality. Their work included adding new test cases, updating existing test parameters, and modifying the test structure to improve coverage and testing efficiency. They demonstrated an understanding of the Azure CLI's architecture by updating command parameter definitions and integrating test cases within the existing framework, and ensuring that the table format for command output is also maintained.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:42 commits, 142 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and automating checks within the repository. Their contributions include implementing static CI checks for code style, adding PR templates, and integrating license and codeowner checks. They also worked on improving build stages and refactoring existing CI test scripts. Further contributions involved setting up integration tests and ensuring the correct running directory for tests.
azure-cliazure-cli-extension
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