Summary
Derek Stegelman is an application development leader with 15+ years of experience designing, building, and modernizing web and mobile applications for higher education and nonprofit organizations. As Assistant Director of IT for Application Development at Colorado State University, he leads a growing team delivering complex custom solutions and maintaining robust platforms. His background spans full-stack development, cloud infrastructure (AWS), DevOps collaboration, and deployment standardization—skills honed by roles at Kansas State University and agency settings. Derek is pragmatic about shipping MVPs quickly and iterating, and he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and process improvements that scale across institutional teams. Based in Fort Collins, he combines academic IT domain expertise with a track record of turning fragmented requirements into maintainable, high-availability systems.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MIS Information Technology Economics, MIS Information Technology Economics at Kansas State University