Dereck Luo
Senior Software Engineer at TikTok
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDereck Luo is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale, privacy-focused infrastructure and user-facing services, currently driving TikTok’s data privacy and privacy security initiatives in Sunnyvale. He has operated at mil-QPS scale implementing L7 interception gateways and low-latency pipelines that underpin projects like Project Texas and Project Clover. Prior roles include blockchain platform engineering at IBM—where he contributed to Hyperledger Fabric samples and cross-language chaincode examples—and full‑stack product work combining React, GraphQL, and CI/CD. His background in applied machine learning and high-frequency trading internships gives him a rare mix of systems performance, security, and data-driven product instincts. Colleagues rely on him to translate rigorous privacy requirements into operational, auditable engineering systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied machine learning Data mining, Master’s Degree Applied machine learning Data mining at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
go10
hyperledger-fabric10
blockchain10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript9
nodejs9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger/fabric-samples
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Samples for Hyperledger Fabric
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 50 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dereck primarily contributed to the `asset-transfer-basic` sample within the `hyperledger/fabric-samples` repository. Their work involved initializing and fixing Go modules for Go-based chaincode. The user added JavaScript, TypeScript, and Go applications to the asset-transfer-basic sample. Finally, they also introduced the `chaincode-external` and refined the Go application for asset transfer.
hyperledgerfabricblockchaindistributed-ledgerhyperledger-fabric
DereckLuo/fabric
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
Dereck's fork of https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric
Contributions:321 pushes, 104 branches in 9 months
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