Derek Misler

Front‑end engineer building AI agent tooling at Docker. 15+ years shipping production‑grade systems, from design‑system infrastructure to the testing contracts and quality bars that make them reliable at scale.

Gordon


Docker, Feb 2024 to now

An AI assistant for millions of Docker Desktop users.

Led engineering across Docker’s AI agent platform, including Gordon 2.0, and rebuilt the shared UI platform its agent tooling runs on.

Code review


Docker

AI code review on 100+ repositories.

Built docker‑agent‑action, rolled it out to every engineering team, hardened its security, and open‑sourced it under Apache 2.0.

AI Governance


Docker

From behind schedule to ahead of it.

Embedded with Docker’s AI Governance team as the sole frontend lead on one of the company’s top priorities, supporting a major enterprise contract.

Earlier


Patreon 2022 to 2023, Cadre 2020 to 2022, Transfix 2016 to 2020

55% lower LCP at Patreon.

Led the front‑end workstream of a full migration from Flask to Next.js, with better developer experience, TypeScript and documentation, and modern testing. Before that, senior engineer to tech lead at Cadre, and first front‑end engineer to Staff‑level lead at Transfix.

Design


BFA, Graphic Design

The design background never left.

Typography, layout, and visual hierarchy still shape the interfaces and systems I build.

Elsewhere