Derek Beard

Distinguished Engineer

Derek Beard is a Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom with over 24 years of experience in data center infrastructure, virtualization, and high-performance networking. Derek has served as lead architect on multiple first-generation products and services, contributing significantly to their development at various startups and established companies such as VMware and NetApp. With a strong background in Agile Scrum and expertise across a range of technologies, Derek currently architects for the core vSphere platform, focusing on workload management and Kubernetes services. Derek holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCLA and a Bachelor's degree in Math/Computer Science from Pepperdine University.

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Austin, United States


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