Derek Snider
Senior Communications, Creative Services & Events Leader
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Snider is an award-winning communications and digital media leader in Toronto with over 20 years of experience and more than a decade building social, branded and broadcast content. As Senior Communications, Creative Services & Events Leader at Peel Regional Police he leads strategy, crisis communications and a multidisciplinary team that shapes public trust and corporate messaging across media and community channels. Previously he drove viral digital growth and original factual series production at The Weather Network and led branded content and audience growth at theScore, demonstrating a blend of newsroom rigor and marketing creativity. Known for mentoring producers and building high-performing teams, he pairs hands-on content production skills with strategic policy and standards development. A longtime C/C++ programmer since 1992, he brings an unusual technical background for a communications executive, enabling a data-informed approach to digital campaigns and production workflows.
9 years of coding experience
BA Hons, Political Science and Government, BA Hons, Political Science and Government at Carleton UniversityGraduate Diploma, Broadcasting, Graduate Diploma, Broadcasting at Humber College
Github Skills (96)
cli9
pair-programming9
command-line9
mailbox8
ai8
chatgpt8
openapi8
docker-container8
sonnet8
jquery-plugin8
text-template8
migration8
openai8
system-tray8
gemini7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
derekbsnider/madc
Sep 2019 - Jul 2026
Mad-C Programming Language (My jit-Assembled Dialect of C)
Contributions:4 PRs, 453 pushes, 29 branches in 6 years 11 months
derekbsnider/WSLTux
May 2022 - Jun 2022
System Tray App to monitor your Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions
Contributions:6 releases, 31 commits, 16 pushes in 25 days
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