Derek Williams
Senior Consultant: Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG): Data & AI Engineering
- Role
- Senior Consultant Engineering & Architecture Group (Eag) Data & Ai Engineering at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Derek Williams
Derek Williams started out traveling around Europe and teaching ESL in Slovakia for 3 years. When an opportunity arose to work in software development, he seized it to teach himself everything he could. Now he is a data and software engineer with 25+ years of experience designing and developing end-to-end systems across multiple industries in a consulting role. Focused primarily on Microsoft technologies, languages, and platforms, he has developed solutions for Microsoft, PacLife, Wizards of the Coast, Plains Midstream Canada, Pepsi, McCormick, Kroger, Health Management Administrators, and the Florida Department of Education.In a second shot at entrepreneurship, he started his own software consulting business (Software.Salt, LLC). Focusing on event driven architectures in Azure, he used serverless technologies, distributed storage and queues, Key Vault, Event Grid, and C# to create auto-scaling API microservices, event driven workflows, and code generation to drive big data batch processing in Azure Data Lake Analytics to ease the adoption of this big data analytics platform through data contracts and mapping tools to remove custom coding. As part of this focus on serverless technologies, he also developed a modular algorithmic trading platform for other algorithmic traders to plug in their own modules, enabling other traders to economically operate their own bespoke implementations in Azure and published this framework to GitHub.Besides skiing, travelling, and being involved with his son in EA (Elite Academy) soccer, he has acquired a passion for developing talent in others. Compassion, camaraderie, honesty, humility, and a recognition of how failure is often a necessary step toward success, he strives to motivate others to endure hardship and struggle, to learn how to learn, to accept and incorporate criticism, and to do the work necessary to be their best selves.
Experience
Senior Consultant Engineering & Architecture Group (Eag) Data & Ai Engineering
Jul 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
As a multi-skilled data engineer in EAG, I leverage my range and depth of experience to influence projects in design thinking, situational best practices, creative thinking, grounded through deep immersion in the gritty details of the customer\'s business and technical environment. I demonstrate better ways of solving problems and implement solutions through immersive collaboration with my customers. I build comprehensive software and data machines for my customers. I also try to make my team\'s work environment fun.
Education
University of Washington
BA, English
1986 — 1991
Western Washington University
MA, English
1996 — 1998
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