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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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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I'm Sorry Dave

The new hotness right now is Large Language Models (LLM), and they are apparently coming for your cushy tech job. Let’s play with that idea for a second.

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