Derek Eastham

Data and Infrastructure Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I am a talented Data and Infrastructure Engineer with over 4 years experience in the industry. I'm adept at working with Timeseries Data in Postgres with detailed knowledge of TimescaleDB. I'm experienced with automating infrastructure deployments and automating the custom dynamically configuring deployments of monitoring solutions (IE: Datadog Agent) to infrastructure in AWS. I'm adept at automating processes, and building integrations between cloud services.

Experience

  • Data System Engineer at GridPoint
    Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    As a Database Administrator on the GridPoint Energy Manager team at GridPoint I assist in managing multiple databases. I am also the project owner for reporting and proactive monitoring solutions and a lead troubleshooting resource for the platform. I am also operating as a Data and Infrastructure Engineer on the GridPoint Intelligence Infrastructure team at GridPoint. Work on this team primarily focuses on deployment automation for our infrastructure assets and services, I am the project owner for proactive monitoring solutions and automated service maintenance tasks, as well as leading and contributing to of our infrastructure design and deployment. I also contribute to and assist with the design, and operations of our databases in this platform. Additionally, I take on a variety of tasks in the capacity of both Data and Infrastructure Engineer as well as Database Administrator to integrate third party services with our corporate salesforce systems, ad-hoc requests, and production operations triage and troubleshooting of both infrastructure and applications. • Languages: o Python o Terraform o BASH o SQL o Python o YAML o JSON • Databases & Datastores: o EC2 Hosted PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB o ETCD o RDS PostgreSQL o RDS SQL Server o Aurora PostgreSQL o Snowflake • AWS: o EC2 Linux Ubuntu & Windows o QuickSight o S3 o Lambda • DataDog • Atlassian: o Confluence o JIRA

  • Content Creator & Social Influencer at Derek Eastham
    Jul 2017 - Mar 2025 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    I produce a variety of content for entertainment purposes, and am a budding influencer building an independent brand. A multi-media live stream in the modern era requires attention to multiple aspects of networking, hardware, and software performance and optimization in order to achieve the greatest performance and quality. • Produce a multi-platform simultaneous stream with integrated live chat aggregated from supported platforms. • Built and maintain multiple excel sheets to track sales of brand merchandise by product, artist, and sales platform to better track the growth of the brand and bring efficiency to the business.

  • Managing Owner at EK Outfitters (EK Holdings, LLC)
    Jan 2012 - Sep 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    As a part owner and manager of a retail shoe store operation, I was responsible for our IT Infrastructure as well as our day to day operations & staff. I maintained an internal network and secure VPN remote operations environment allowing us to do business from anywhere we had an internet connection available to us. I also built and maintained reports to bring greater efficiency and detail to the operation of the business leading to a growth in sales of 50% over the first three years of business. • Built reports with excel to provide greater insight into sales and extrapolate trends resulting in: o A steady increase in sales. o Higher ROI in marketing campaigns o An efficient plan of operation • Built and maintained the database of products for our store from scratch including Products, General Ledger associations, sales tax, cost, retail, and availability data which resulted in: o A more efficient customer experience o Detailed sales and trend reports o More efficient inventory planning and management • Served as Project Manager for a complete business rebranding which was executed in a 48 hour period o Planned and executed a complete showroom renovation o Planned and executed a complete inventory replacement o Replacement of all external and internal signage

  • Area Retail Manager at Onlineshoes.com
    Jun 2007 - Jan 2012 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    I managed and oversaw operations at all brick & mortar retail locations in the Greater Seattle Area. In addition to managing and training staff, managing inventory and leading our customer service team; I was also the first point of contact for tech support needs at the retail stores providing troubleshooting and solution implementation for hardware, software, networking and connectivity related problems. • Built reports with excel to provide greater insight into sales and extrapolate trends resulting in: o Improved insight into sales staff performance o Improved insight into daily profitability of locations individually and as a group o An Increase in sales greater than 60% over two years at a previously failing location o More efficient inventory management yielding a greater per unit ROI

  • Team Lead at Lowe's Companies, Inc.
    May 2005 - Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    New Employee Training Oversee Head Cashiers, Cashiers & Loaders Open & Close registers & register zones Cashier & Loss Prevention Customer Service Completed the Management Training Course