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Derek Herman

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Founder at Stealth AI Startup
📍 Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States

Derek Herman is the founder of a stealth AI startup focused on MLOps for real-time cognition. An engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience, he has a background as a CTO and holds a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification, specializing in building cloud-native platforms.

He has been recognized twice as a "Recent Rockstar" for his significant open-source contributions to the WordPress project.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States
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Composable MLOps
He is currently building a platform to redefine MLOps, creating tools for real-time orchestration, classifier development, and building intelligent systems from end to end.
AI Context Pipelines
He believes the key differentiator for AI products is not the language model but the quality of the context pipeline that feeds it.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Founder
Stealth AI Startup
12-2024
Fractional CTO / Principal Engineer
Stealth
7-2023 - 2-2025
Principal Engineer
10up
12-2022 - 7-2023
Chief Technology Officer
Yoast BV
9-2018 - 4-2022
Chief Technology Officer
XWP
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Education
2007 - 2008
Computer Science
Oregon Institute of Technology
2006 - 2007
Associate of Science - A.S.
Portland Community College
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