Derek Cheng
Software Developer at Empactis
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Cheng is a C# software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building and modernizing enterprise web applications from the UK’s Greater Reading Area. He specializes in .NET ecosystems—ASP.NET Core, IdentityServer, Entity Framework—and has driven migrations such as ElasticSearch-to-SQL and AngularJS-to-Angular upgrades while delivering FHIR-compliant healthcare integrations. Comfortable across the stack, Derek pairs strong backend skills with TypeScript/Angular front-end work and a disciplined testing and CI mindset (XUnit, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Docker). A First Class Mathematics graduate from the University of Nottingham, he brings analytical rigor to engineering problems and a demonstrated appetite for upgrading legacy systems to modern, secure architectures. He maintains an active GitHub presence and favors practical, interoperability-focused solutions that ease long-term maintenance and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, First Class, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, First Class at University of NottinghamHartlepool Sixth Form College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (200)
python10
windows10
npm-package10
asp-net-core10
trx10
asp-net10
web-performance10
unidirectional-data-flow10
webjobs10
dto10
ssh10
scheduled-tasks10
javascript10
reactive10
linux10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cheng93/dotnet-arch
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
cheng93/AdventOfCode
Dec 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:266 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
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