About me
Derek Straka is a Director of Product Management at Wind River where he focuses on product strategy, product management, commercial partnerships, and industry solutions for Wind River's Linux portfolio. He joined Wind River from McKinsey and Company where we most recently served as an Associate Partner and Senior Principal Engineer leading technology delivery and product strategy programs for Fortune 100 companies in healthcare. Before McKinsey, he served 12+ years in a variety of engineering leadership roles designing, building, and maintaining embedded Linux products in health care and defense. He is also passionate about open-source software serving as a Yocto maintainer for various meta layers including meta-python.