Derek Graham
Senior Software Engineer at Evvnt
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDerek Graham is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of professional experience and a 12-year focused track record delivering web applications that drive operational results. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, PostgreSQL/MySQL and JavaScript, and pairs that stack with practical AWS know-how to run production systems reliably. Derek has built CMS, e-commerce, and bespoke web apps for organizations from startups to enterprise clients such as Evvnt, GeoTix, Priority Health and Steelcase, and has run his own development consultancy and e-commerce storefront. He brings both hands-on implementation skills and an owner’s perspective from founding Gray Dog Interactive and Gray Dog Outfitters, which informs pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering decisions. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he’s passionate about crafting user-friendly solutions that solve real problems and often blends legacy language expertise with modern Rails-driven architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
Stackoverflow
436reputation
34kreached
12answers
0questions
Github Skills (46)
dsl9
ruby9
apple-pay9
material-design8
render8
jquery-plugin8
testing8
stripe7
sql-server6
php6
soa6
memcached6
concrete56
ajax6
cakephp6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
evvnt/site_impact
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years
mynorth/Tray
Sep 2015 - Oct 2019
A Composable Shopping Cart for SOA Style E-Commerce Platforms.
Contributions:56 commits, 5 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ecommercesoa
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.