Derek Ahmed
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Ahmed is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building data- and ML-driven systems, currently at Google DeepMind focusing on model evaluation tooling for Gemini. He has shipped evaluation and reporting tools for generated audio and owned migrations of audio input evaluations, and previously developed classifiers and generative-AI features for YouTube and Search at Google. Derek’s background spans productionizing time-series anomaly detection and high-throughput annotation pipelines at Amazon, search and summarization features at Clarivate, and low-level FPGA work at Arista, reflecting both systems and research-adjacent expertise. He holds a CS master’s from Columbia and a BA in CS & Economics from UC Berkeley, and volunteers time to CS/STEM education when possible. An operator who moves models from prototype to reliable production metrics, he blends practical engineering with evaluation-focused ML tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science & Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science & Economics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (9)
cycle9
fpga9
simulation9
lattice8
risc-v8
hardware8
rocket-chip6
scalable5
emotion2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bearathlon/bearathlon.github.io
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 52 pushes in 1 year 1 month
derkmed/final-jenkins-test
Aug 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
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