# Derek Wiers > Senior Software Engineer at CareBridge Location: Nevada, Iowa, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/derekwiers Experienced Senior Software Engineer familiar with many paradigms and industry best practices. I love accessibility, functional programming, side projects, and full-stack projects. I'm a functional programming enthusiast, Elixir fan, and generally attack problems in a functional mindset. I've done a good amount of object-oriented work, but functional is where I work best. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ CareBridge Jan 2024 – Present | Nashville, Tennessee, United States Develop & Maintain a large, complex data-processing API using Elixir, Phoenix, and Postgres ### Senior Software Engineer @ ComplYant Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Spearheaded creation of standardized components to match the company's design system using PHP, Blade, and Livewire, resulting in clean, usable, and accessible front-end components. - Became an Engineering Technical Lead and Engineering Manager, leading an engineering team of 4 engineers/designers, resulting in the team being able to deliver features and bug fixes at a rapid pace. ### Senior Software Engineer @ EXO Freight Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Took a freight factoring application from idea to implementation using Django, Django Rest Framework, React, & Typescript. ### Software Engineer @ Branding Brand Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Designed & built a state management library to manage state in place of Redux for highly complex and automated React Native applications, allowing a fully managed drag-and-drop integrations system in React Native applications. - Formulated & developed a data binding DSL parser in TypeScript, allowing for highly complex, serializable React components with data binding and dynamic configurable behavior based on runtime-computed integration data. - Documented & mentored the engineering team on use and maintenance of the state management library and DSL parser, allowing the team to collaborate more effectively on the project. ### Software Engineer @ Principal Financial Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States - Worked to develop user experiences in React, Typescript, JSF, Backbone.js, and XSLT with a focus on accessibility and developer usability, resulting in a more accessible user experience and faster development time. ### Senior Software Developer @ Blue Canvas Labs Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Remote - Developed a Python 3 library to easily make calls to Salesforce REST API, Metadata API, SOAP API, and others. ### Salesforce Administrator @ Workiva Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Ames, Iowa - Performed extensive feature work for stakeholders across a large startup company. - Solved Dev Ops auditing issues in the Salesforce deployment (CI/CD) process with a custom CLI-based CI tool, using various Salesforce APIs, Python 3, Git, & Bash, resulting in a more auditable, reliable, and secure deployment process. ### Subject Matter Expert @ Cognizant Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 - Trained and certified in Salesforce within 3 months of onboarding, honing technical communication skills with a trilingual team of 15+ members, resulting in being promoted to Tier 1 & 2 Support after 7 months of employment, and SME shortly thereafter. ### Business Process Executive @ Cognizant Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Iowa State University Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Information Technology--Software Western Governors University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derek-wiers - GitHub: https://github.com/dtwiers - Website: https://derek.wiers.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/derekwiers JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/derekwiers/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22