About me

Deryck Hodge is a developer and engineering leader working in media & entertainment. 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. We're focused on building a great infrastructure platform and developer experience. That work has been a recurring theme throughout my career. My previous stops include: Apple, Disney, AWS, Canonical, and the Washington Post, among others. Check out my LinkedIn profile if you want the full details on my career.

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.