Derek Chau
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Chau is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of engineering experience and a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto. He has delivered scalable, production-grade services at Flipp—where he helped decouple monoliths into Kafka-backed microservices, instrumented systems with DataDog, and led onboarding and on-call rotations—and now contributes to platform-level work at Shopify. Derek blends backend expertise in Ruby on Rails and containerized deployments with practical observability and reliability practices, helping teams move fast without sacrificing stability. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs strong implementation skills with a knack for translating legacy systems into more maintainable, event-driven architectures.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of TorontoHigh School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at North Toronto Collegiate Institute
English
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Github Skills (8)
avro9
language-server8
kafka8
ruby8
vscode-extension8
jruby8
language-server-protocol8
activerecord6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DeeChau/deimos
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Framework to work with Kafka, Avro and ActiveRecord
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
avrorubyavro-kafkakafkaactiverecord
DeeChau/test-git
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
test git shtuff
Contributions:22 PRs, 13 pushes, 24 branches in 1 day
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