Cristian Derr
Software Engineer at Anyscale
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolCristian Derr is a self-taught software engineer with 13 years of industry experience and nine years focused on frontend work for large web apps serving millions of daily users. Based in Oakland, he has progressed from WalmartLabs to senior frontend roles at Slack and staff engineering at sound.xyz, and now contributes to AI infrastructure at Anyscale. He combines deep UI craftsmanship with pragmatic full-stack sensibilities, evidenced by recent open-source contributions improving the Ray project's documentation and interactive "Ask AI" UI. Comfortable in fast-paced product teams, he has a background in physics, acoustics, and music from MIT, which informs a measured, user-centered approach to performance and design.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Physics Acoustics Music, Bachelor of Science Physics Acoustics Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
css10
ray10
sphinx10
documentation10
python9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
javascript8
deploying4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ray-project/ray
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Cristian primarily focused on enhancing the documentation and user interface of the Ray project. They fixed a broken SVG element within the "Ask AI" dialog and addressed layout issues in the documentation, ensuring proper display across different pages. Additionally, the user implemented the PyData Sphinx theme version switcher, integrating it into the navbar and configuring it to fetch and display the available versions. The contributions also involved code and styling changes related to the search functionality and appearance of the "Ask AI" button.
pythonconsistsruntimetensorflowserving
cristianjd/jquery-animatedSort
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:29 commits in 3 months
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