Derrick Suarez

>> Software Engineer

Passionate about building testable, scalable software, with a focus on APIs and backend systems. I'm comfortable anywhere on the stack and have worked with a variety of technologies during the course of my journey as a professional software engineer.

Developer

Node JS

Years experience: 3+

Have used it for:

  • - App Development
  • - REST API Development
  • - CLI Tool Development

Go

Years experience: 2+

Have used it for:

  • - REST API Development

React JS

Years experience: 3+

Have used it for:

  • - UI Development

PostgreSQL

Years experience: 3+

Have used it for:

  • - Database
  • - Data Extraction
  • - Data Normalization

GitHub

Years experience: 3+

Have used it for:

  • - Database ORM
  • - Data Modeling
  • - Data Extraction

Git

Years experience: 3+

Have used it for:

  • - Version Control
  • - Feature Branch Management
  • - Release Tracking

Journey

My education about and entrance into software development came about in a non-traditional manner: after working as an educator for seven years, I took a leap and enrolled in the first cohort of the Coding Bootcamp at UT Austin, an intensive, job-skills-focused alternative education program, from April - October 2016. We moved quickly, covering full stack technologies, including Javascript (Node, jQuery, React), MySQL, MongoDB, HTML and CSS, among others. At the end of the program, I earned a position as a software engineer at a (now defunct) startup in Austin, TX. Currently, I work for J-Curve Technologies as a Software Engineer, building a data analytics and workforce management platform for contact center operations (among other projects).

1983

Birthday

1 of 2 children (older sister)

2001

Completed High School

Played on the state-champion Golf Team

2001

(moved to Baton Route, LA)

2005

Complete Bachelor's Degree

Foreign Languages & Literatures (Latin)

2006

(moved back home (Sulphur / Lake Charles, LA))

2006

Played keyboard/piano in 'Paper Plains'

Indie rock band (wrote original music)

2009

Completed Master's Degree

Master's in the Arts of Teaching - Foreign Languages / English

2009

High School Teacher - Latin, Mythology

Taught Latin I - IV and Mythology

2011

(moved to Madrid, Spain)

2011

English Teaching Assistant

Assisted teachers in facilitating conversations in English with students

2013

(moved back home (again))

2013

High School Teacher - Latin, Spanish

Taught Spanish II - V

2014

(moved to Austin, TX)

2014

High School Teacher - Spanish

Taught Spanish I - II

2016

The Coding Bootcamp at UT Austin

Learned Web Development in a 6-month intensive bootcamp

2016

Software Engineer @ Zilkr Technologies

Helped build UCAAS developer platform (Nodejs)

2017

Became a dad!

2018

Front-End Web Developer @ Scalable Company

Helped build CMS app

2019

Software Engineer @ J-Curve Technologies

Helping build data analytics tools