Derek Au
Creator & Developer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Au is a creator and full-stack software engineer based in New York with two decades of experience building resilient, maintainable web applications and leading cross-functional teams in cultural institutions and non-profits. He designs and ships end-to-end systems—search platforms, CMS migrations, ETL APIs, and visualization tools—combining Elasticsearch/Meilisearch, Next.js, Sanity, and cloud DevOps to unify disparate museum and community data. At Brooklyn Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art he led large migrations and built unified faceted search and ETL pipelines, while his personal projects Musefully and Glazy.org showcase applied machine learning (OpenAI CLIP), color clustering, and a recipe solver powered by linear programming. Equally comfortable crafting UI themes and interactions—evident from his LogViewer Bootstrap enhancements—he blends strong design sensibility with pragmatic engineering. Known for clear communication and documentation, he often translates complex content models into usable systems for diverse stakeholders. Outside software he’s also a practicing ceramicist, bringing a maker’s attention to materiality and craft into his digital work.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
php10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
laravel10
bootstrap10
laravel-mix10
html9
css9
theme-development8
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ARCANEDEV/LogViewer
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
:page_with_curl: Provides a log viewer for Laravel
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on updating the log viewer's user interface. They implemented a Bootstrap 4 theme for the application, including the creation of new views, styling, and template adjustments. Furthermore, the user made several minor styling improvements and configuration changes to enhance the user interface. They also addressed issues with the theming and fixed routing for the themed views.
log-viewerphploggingcurlviewer
derekphilipau/laravel-5.5-coreui-vue-separated
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
A clean install of Laravel 5.5 with CoreUI VueJS
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 12 days
clean-installcoreuicleanvuelaravel-5
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