Derrek Bertrand

Derrek Bertrand

Engineering Manager / Software Engineer

I have a passion for outcome driven teams, legacy displacement and continuous improvement. I value empiricism, humanism and equity.

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Latest Blog Posts

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Deep Magic: Sparse Tests using a Makefile

When running tests and deployments in CI, we do not want to test and deploy projects that were not affected by code changes. Here we discuss how to handle that with a Makefile.

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Wrangling Legacy Data: Denormalize and Purge

Does a user need to access data from 5+ years ago? For most stores / tables and most organizations the answer is “no”. For most business software, we are managing the day-to-day. We will not be running reports over the past half decade or accessing a delivery route from 2018. For these cases, we denormalize and purge.

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Some Companies Can't Handle Remote

There are many successful remote-first tech companies - GitLab, Zapier and Stripe for example. So why do Goldman Sachs and Salesforce insist that remote doesn’t work? Simple. They just can’t handle it.

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