Derek Edwards
Senior Software Engineer at ezCater
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 12 years of experience building transportation-focused technology that improves accessibility and urban mobility. He has led development of open-source tools like the 1-Click project and integrated paratransit booking workflows to help people with disabilities compare and book multimodal trips. His background blends academic research—implementing OneBusAway and developing diagnostic/prognostic algorithms during graduate work—with production engineering at companies like Ridecell and ezCater. Derek combines systems-level thinking from a Ph.D. in ECE with hands-on product delivery, often translating complex transportation problems into practical, user-centered software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (26)
python10
opentripplanner10
multimodal10
gtfs10
ruby9
rails-engines9
php9
ride8
transit8
derived7
plugin7
oneclick7
gis6
otp5
java4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
camsys/oneclick_refernet
Jun 2017 - Dec 2020
Engine controlling interaction between Oneclick-Core and ReferNET API
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 years 6 months
apiinteractiononeclickcontrolling
DerekEdwards/grocery
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 147 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
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