“It is great pleasure to have chance working with Derek for more than 4 years. He knows how to solve the problem correctly and smart as well as mentor the others. The OSDB learning lab he lead the team to build up and keep building provides us a great paltform to learn/practice on the cutting edge skills of auotmation/mysql /MongoDB/Cassandra etc. Derek is so reliable that every time when I encountered an issue and reached out to him he never let me down.”
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"The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get…
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To build the smartest contextually relevant applications, you need to be able to reason about knowledge – not just the data itself but how the data…
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Spanner Graph. GQL alongside SQL. No data transfers. Everything is in-sync on Spanner. Oh, that means scalability comes to Graph. Awesome!
Spanner Graph. GQL alongside SQL. No data transfers. Everything is in-sync on Spanner. Oh, that means scalability comes to Graph. Awesome!
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I'll be speaking shortly at Google I/O Extended 2024 GDG Winnipeg on "Using AI to Enhance Coding Skills: Improving Code Quality, Speeding Up…
I'll be speaking shortly at Google I/O Extended 2024 GDG Winnipeg on "Using AI to Enhance Coding Skills: Improving Code Quality, Speeding Up…
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RIMs (Real-Time Inventory Management) System
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RIMs is an automotive CMS system designed to ease and automate marketing tasks for dealerships. The system was designed as a tool to help manage and distribute inventory, update website content, create specials and more. As the system matured, social media tools and Google Analytics / link tracking was added to help connect the traditional and broadcast advertising efforts.
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Leadership - LIVE Award
Pythian
The Pythian LIVE Awards celebrate a body of work by someone for their on-going contribution in the areas of Leadership, Innovation, Value, and Engagement
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Leadership
Accountability Acceptor - Taking responsibility for one's actions, even when the outcome is not positive.
Collaborative Curator - Leads partnerships with other functional teams and groups within Pythian to help achieve Pythian's corporate goals
Communication Connoisseur - Demonstrates and exemplifies…The Pythian LIVE Awards celebrate a body of work by someone for their on-going contribution in the areas of Leadership, Innovation, Value, and Engagement
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Leadership
Accountability Acceptor - Taking responsibility for one's actions, even when the outcome is not positive.
Collaborative Curator - Leads partnerships with other functional teams and groups within Pythian to help achieve Pythian's corporate goals
Communication Connoisseur - Demonstrates and exemplifies the 7 C's of communication: Clear; Concise; Concrete; Correct; Coherent; Complete; Courteous
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