Derek Stobbe (he/him)
Senior Software Engineer
I love to write code, and I love to solve problems. Programming isn’t just something that I do for work: it’s something that I do when I don’t have to be doing anything else. I want to learn new things, be challenged, and solve interesting problems.
Work Experience
Ultimate Software / UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
Lead Software Engineer • Remote • 04/2017 – Present
Led the development and played a key role in requirement discovery and architectural guidance for an event-sourced message inbox feature integrated into an enterprise web application.
- Conducted technical analysis of proposed features.
- Facilitated peer code reviews.
- Mentored and onboarded interns and new team members.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate data from various business workflows into our feature.
Enhanced observability and monitoring within the microservice ecosystem.
- Actively contributed to regular on-call rotations.
- Triaged PagerDuty escalations for production incidents.
- Spearheaded zero-blame incident postmortems and led investigations and remediations.
Drove application architecture of a greenfield web application, in preparation for and anticipation of contributions from feature teams.
- Gathered developer requirements and examined and mitigated pain points to improve developer experience.
- Made significant contributions to developer documentation.
- Designed features in collaboration with PM and UX.
- Provided guidance and mentorship aross multiple areas of the application.
Workfront
Software Engineer • Lehi, UT • 09/2012 – 04/2017
Lead front-end (JavaScript) developer on one of several feature teams, implementing and maintaining product features (including several high-profile customer-facing features).
- Assisted PM/UX in defining the scope of new features.
- Made recommendations and provided assistance to other developers on the team and throughout the organization.
As a member of the “front-end leads” group within Workfront, I additionally helped guide technology choices within our front-end stack.
- Championed the modernization of our legacy front-end framework, demonstrating the effectiveness of AngularJS for new feature development.
- Actively participated in discussions about and made recommendations on the use of emerging technologies.