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Derek Pecka
Platform, Cloud, Reliability & DevEx Engineering Leader
location San Francisco Bay Area status building things
cat about.md
$ cat about.md

// Who I am


Engineering leader with deep technical expertise in cloud platform engineering, service reliability (SRE), cyber security, privacy, and integration. Deep domain expertise in financial technology/payments, public safety, and consumer electronics.


Equally comfortable in code and the boardroom. A builder at heart. Passionate about leadership, team building, the full product lifecycle, and attacking the impossible.

experience --verbose
$ experience --verbose
Security Engineering & Operations Leader @ Patelco Credit Union 2023 – Present
San Francisco Bay Area
  • Building and leading Patelco's security engineering organization from the ground up
  • Delivering a comprehensive program across vulnerability management, endpoint protection, and multi-cloud SDLC
  • Partnering with engineering and business teams to elevate SRE, DevOps, and cloud security practices
Senior Director, Cloud Platform, SRE & Cyber Security @ Motorola Solutions 2022 – 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
  • Led Cloud Platform, SRE, Quality, Security, and FinOps teams (150+ across US and Europe) powering the world's most robust public safety platform
  • Renegotiated cloud vendor partnerships including co-development agreements and $1B+ in annual compute commitments
  • Drove the SRE and observability platform covering 9-1-1 call management, evidence management, and macro-scale video/AI deployments
Senior Manager, SRE, Security & Compliance @ Apple 2015 – 2022
Cupertino, CA
  • Scaled Apple Pay from 1 country to 60+ countries, supporting 1B+ devices across the US, Europe, and Asia with a team of 120+
  • Led security and privacy architecture for Apple Pay, Apple Cash, Apple Card, and Commerce identity
  • Architected high-assurance, event-driven money movement and ledger systems at global scale
  • Led PCI, SOX, and internal control audit execution for Apple Pay and iOS Systems; partnered with legal and government representatives on global regulatory expansion
  • Built a security testing and validation platform to automate and accelerate control testing across device protocols and activation
Senior Manager, Retail Systems & Information Security @ Gordmans Stores 2006 – 2015
Omaha, NE
  • Designed, built, and maintained the company's point-of-sale system and drove the full technology stack migration from 100% mainframe to modern infrastructure
  • Led CRM and loyalty program technology across backend, frontend/web, and mobile wallet integrations
  • Owned the Security & Compliance organization — PCI and SOX compliance, endpoint management, forensics, and security testing
ls skills/
$ ls -la skills/

// languages

Python Java Go Rust JavaScript TypeScript SQL

// cloud & infra

Developer Experience AWS Kubernetes Terraform Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana

// security & reliability

SRE Cloud Security DevSecOps Vulnerability Management Endpoint Protection Observability

// leadership

Platform Engineering Team Leadership Architecture FinOps Hyperscaling Mentoring
contact --list
$ contact --list