Derrick Reimer
Founder at SavvyCal
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Reimer is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling indie SaaS products, currently leading SavvyCal with a small, scrappy team from Minneapolis. He previously co-founded Drip (acquired by Leadpages) and launched Codetree (acquired in 2016), demonstrating a repeated ability to turn developer-focused ideas into viable, acquired products. Hands-on across backend and frontend stacks, Derrick contributes to open-source projects—most recently implementing role/permission features with Elixir, GraphQL, and Elm—to optimize team communication and deep work. A former podcast co-host and regular startup contributor, he blends product instinct, developer empathy, and pragmatic engineering to ship customer-focused tooling.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at California State University, Fresno
Github Skills (7)
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
elm10
elixir10
postgresql8
websocket6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
inertiajs/inertia-phoenix
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
The Phoenix adapter for Inertia.js.
Contributions:16 releases, 8 reviews, 19 PRs in 3 years 1 month
inertiajselixir
unstacked/statickit-site
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
The source for statickit.com
Contributions:20 PRs, 297 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
statickitstatic-sitestatic-site-generator
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