Derek Payton

A driven, enthusiastic developer with several years of experience building web applications; has an affection for clean, elegant code; a fan of Open Source technologies; always willing and eager to learn.

Web Developer

Cuker Interactive, April 2009 – Present
  • Developed, launched, and maintained brochure, ecommerce, and mobile websites for clients such as Sony, Callaway Golf, DC Shoes, Alpinestars, Manduka, ViX Swimwear, and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
  • Half of a two-man team that launched a community website for DC Shoes on a two-week deadline. Features included a message board, video/photo blog, and user activity streams.
  • Developed new features for and helped maintain the companies flagship CMS & E-Commerce product, WebCube.
  • Developed an order management system, including integration with UPS Worldship and FedEx Ship Manager, to streamline order fulfillment and reduce administrative errors.
  • Sysadmin responsibilities included setup and maintenance of many LAMP-stack web servers.

Software Engineer

Third Iris / VIAAS, August 2008 – March 2009
  • Developed a dynamic, automated server deployment and bootstrapping system on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure.
  • Developed a system for authenticating security cameras and directing them to available video upload servers.
  • Developed a reporting and monitoring system that emailed users daily summary reports of their camera activities and alerted them to unexpected events.
  • Wrote a memcached wrapper for the Django ORM, enabling greater scalability without major architectural changes.

Web Developer

Digital Attic, June 2008 – July 2008
  • Built, launched, and scaled a contest website for United Supermarkets to over 250,000 users on a 512MB VPS.
  • Improved overall code quality by refactoring spaghetti-code and fixing security errors.
  • Debugged legacy code and developed new features for client websites.

Software Developer

GalaxyIT, January 2008 – April 2008
  • Built a web service to provide contextual advertisements inside an Adobe Flash/Flex application.
  • Developed algorithms to determine ad relevence based on the content displayed in the browser.
  • Sysadmin responsibilities included setup and maintenance of a LAMP-stack web server.

Web Developer

Custom Computer Solutions, June 2007 – January 2008
  • Worked closely with local businesses to provide custom web development services.
  • Sysadmin responsibilities included setup and maintenance of LAMP-stack web servers.

Web Developer (Intern)

Intrigo Media, July 2006 – May 2007
  • Maintained legacy codebases, making changes and adding new features as requested by clients.