Derek Honerlaw
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Honerlaw is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Charlotte with over a decade of hands-on software experience and more than five years leading engineers and other managers. He excels at architecting scalable systems and driving enterprise modernizations, often blending AI-driven automation into validation and infrastructure strategies to deliver measurable business impact. Technical fluency spans Node.js, TypeScript, Java and related stacks, but he emphasizes adaptability and choosing the right tools for each problem. Known as a people-first leader, he builds psychological safety, restructures organizations to align strengths with business challenges, and focuses on growing resilient, autonomous teams. A former lead developer and VP of software at smaller organizations, Derek brings both startup grit and enterprise delivery discipline to complex, high-stakes engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,509reputation
98kreached
46answers
2questions
react-native
top-5%
facebook
top-5%
Github Skills (25)
audio-files9
react-native9
facebook9
serverless-plugin9
php-extension8
php8
phalcon7
fingerprinting7
c-extension7
socket6
buffered-reader6
full-stack6
jquery6
laravel6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
honerlaw/audio-fingerprinting
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
A simple java library for fingerprinting audio files using a spectrogram.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
audio-filesfingerprintingjavaspectrogram
honerlaw/verena
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 73 pushes, 12 branches in 5 months
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