Derek Bui
Co-Founder at AhaSlides - Interactive presentation software
Tokyo, Czechia
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Top SchoolDerek Bui is a pragmatic co-founder and site reliability engineer with 12 years of experience building self-healing, business-driven infrastructure and shipping frequent production changes. Based in Tokyo with roots in Czechia, he co-founded AhaSlides and previously ensured reliability at Treasure Data and Rakuten, bringing startup grit and enterprise-grade SRE practices together. He favors "test on production" philosophies and high-velocity delivery—often deploying multiple times per day—while keeping systems resilient and aligned with product goals. Early entrepreneurial and engineering roles (including founding Car From Japan and building customized Postfix clusters) underline his operational depth and hands-on approach to scaling services.
12 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 (26)
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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