Derak Kilgo
derakkilgo.com
I don’t just deliver features; I own outcomes.
I have 20+ years of experience modernizing and supporting production systems.
I build reliable back-end tools that improve customer experience.
Austin Native, Dad, Husband, Volunteer, INFJ-T
Find me
Words
- Tech Blog I Sketch in Code
- Stack Overflow Answers
- Quora Wit & Wisdom
- GitHub Gists Code snippets
Projects
- Open Statutes Public data aggregated into ML-friendly formats
- Austin Crash Data Archive of Austin/Travis County crash service data
- Enterprise Ipsum Ipsum generator in the voice of TNG's favorite captain
- hibp-download PHP-based Have I Been Pwned downloader and local server
- phpml-sentiment-demo ML with PHP — Austin PHP talk demo
- Files Stuff I host
Involvement
- Education Service Center Region 13 Current gig
- Saint Martin's School board member 2025–2026
- Longhorn PHP Conference This one time; I was driving Derrick, Nils and Jordi to the airport...
- Austin PHP Volunteer & in-person host since 2004
- Precision Micrographics Past gig via Wayback Machine
- Mindsorb Past contractor, hip hop reading project via Wayback Machine