Derek Wright
Co-founder at 3281d Consulting
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wright is a seasoned distributed systems engineer and co-founder with over 20 years building and leading high-throughput, fault-tolerant computing projects. As a senior staff member and long-time maintainer of the Condor project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he designed core scheduling and resource-allocation features, led a 40+ person development team, and managed complex source-tree and branch workflows. He pairs deep systems programming expertise (C/C++, Perl, PHP, shell) with practical skills in release engineering, system administration, and web/Drupal development. Derek has presented and published internationally on grid and peer-to-peer computing, and brings a pragmatic focus on security, portability, and robustness to consulting work through his Oakland-based firm. An intriguing facet of his profile is the blend of academic research impact and hands-on open-source stewardship that spans both large-scale scientific infrastructure and CMS-driven web projects.
20 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ali Akbar College of MusicCMT, CMT at The Breema CenterBS, BS at University of Wisconsin - Madison
Spanish, English, Portuguese, hawaiian
Github Skills (59)
drupal10
cms9
backdrop9
geographic9
php9
rector8
circleci8
command-prompt7
spell7
psysh7
html-editor7
drush7
cli7
symfony6
cldr6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ISO-tech/sw-d8
Sep 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 167 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
Breema/breema-d8
Oct 2017 - Nov 2025
Contributions:244 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
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