About me

Deryck Hodge is a developer and engineering leader working in media, entertainment, and publishing. 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. I'm focused on developer platforms and developer experience, as I have been at many of my previous stops, which include Apple, Disney, AWS, Canonical, the Washington Post, and more.

The is my personal site where I dive into my creative passions. I love reading and writing about tech, storytelling in all its forms, and exploring how technology shapes the way we tell stories. I'm also into comics, games, literary fiction, film/TV, college football, and MLS. 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.