About me

Deryck Hodge is a web developer who loves comics and superhero RPGs. That’s the tagline at least, the simple version of the story, if you will, but there’s more. So let’s unpack it. 

By day, I’m a senior engineering manager at Warner Bros. Discovery, where I lead the Tooling, Infrastructure, and Performance teams for CNN Content Platforms. My previous stops include Apple, Disney, AWS, Canonical, the Washington Post, and more.

The is my personal site where I dive into my creative passions: reading and writing about comics, playing superhero RPGs, and exploring how technology shapes the way we tell stories. If you're into a cross section of those things, you might like what I write here. Subscribe to follow along!

Before getting into software development, I went to school to be a writer and a teacher. I have an English degree. Writing is ultimately what lead me to the web, which is where my career was formed. If you're curious about my creative writing, I do have a few short stories posted on this site and a middle grade novel at Storybird (requires Storybird account). I also prototyped a comic with generative AI tools called Hartwell.

Outside all that, I'm married and have two grown daughters. I grew up in Alabama, lived all over the south, and now call Atlanta home. If you're curious, I have a post on where the site name "Anderycks" came from.