Derek Spencer

Derek Spencer has a diverse work experience, starting from their current role as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Payzer. Previously, they worked for E-Poll Market Research for over 20 years, where they held various positions such as Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator, and Technologist. During their time at E-Poll, they played a key role in the DevOps transformation, implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform and managing server configurations with Ansible. Derek also led the migration of servers to AWS and virtual server providers, improving cost and performance.

Prior to E-Poll, Derek worked as a Systems Administrator Consultant at Temple & Webster, a flash sales website in Australia. Derek also founded and managed a successful online community, ZCAR.COM, dedicated to Datsun/Nissan Z sports cars. This venture served millions of page views monthly and involved migrating site content across different platforms.

Derek started their career at <tag> media as a Technical Coordinator, where they developed web applications for notable clients and assisted in solution design and implementation. Derek also fulfilled system administration duties for the company's network and hosting environment.

Overall, Derek Spencer has extensive experience in DevOps, cloud migration, system administration, and web development.

Derek Spencer began their education in 1993 at the University of Maryland, where they studied Engineering/Business Management for two years. Derek then transferred to California State University, Northridge in 1995 and spent the following two years studying Management Information Systems. Following a gap in their education, Derek attended Los Angeles Pierce College where they completed their studies in Programming for Computer Science, earning an Associate of Science (AS) degree in 2013.