Derek Chen
Jobs (1)
Staff-level distributed systems and Kubernetes depth exceeds the req. Led a multi-region failover architecture and mentors senior engineers — directly on point for the on-call maturity ask.
- +10 years distributed systems experience at staff level
- +Designed multi-region failover — advanced distributed systems design
- +Kubernetes operating experience across multiple clusters, the JD's named preferred qualification
- −Titled SRE rather than backend engineer — worth confirming appetite for service-level feature work, not just platform ownership
Resume
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Summary
Staff-level site reliability engineer with 10 years of large-scale distributed systems and Kubernetes experience.
Experience
Staff SRE, Ridgeline Health (2019–2026): Led the migration of the org's core services to Kubernetes; designed the multi-region failover architecture. Mentors senior engineers on distributed systems design. Senior SRE, Northwind Logistics (2015–2019): On-call leadership, PostgreSQL and AWS at scale.
Skills
Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Go, distributed systems architecture, multi-region failover, mentoring.
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