Derek Bui
Co-Founder at AhaSlides - Interactive presentation software
Tokyo, Czechia
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Top SchoolDerek Bui is a results-driven software entrepreneur and site reliability engineer with 11 years of experience delivering reliable, production-ready systems and aligning engineering with business outcomes. As Co-Founder of AhaSlides since 2020 and formerly of Car From Japan, he blends product vision with hands-on engineering to scale startups. His SRE background includes roles at Treasure Data and Rakuten, where he built resilient, scalable infrastructures for fast-moving teams. A self-professed advocate for self-healing infrastructure, he emphasizes high-frequency deployments—around 10 releases per day—and production-first engineering. Based in Tokyo and grounded in a management/economics/HR and social media education, he translates complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions. He is an active GitHub contributor focused on reliability and self-healing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Management, Economics, HR, Social Media, Bachelor of Management, Economics, HR, Social Media at 立命館アジア太平洋大学Mathematics & Computer Science, Mathematics & Computer Science at Chu Van An National High School
Japanese, Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (27)
marketing-automation9
mautic9
php9
email-marketing9
priority-queue8
marketing8
marketing-tools8
kue8
amazon7
bull7
open-source7
backend7
job-queue7
queue6
nodejs6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cfjtech/sqs-taskqueue
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
A drop-in replacement for Kue with Amazon SQS backend
Contributions:46 commits, 10 PRs, 48 pushes in 8 months
drop-inamazon-sqsamazonkuebackend
SpeakUpp/speakupp_ios
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
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