Derek Choe
Senior Software Engineer at CLEAR
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Choe is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with seven years of experience building high-impact web products and platform features. At CLEAR he has led real-time analytics, ETL and document-capture integrations that cut failure rates and capture times while enabling partnerships with major brands like LinkedIn, Uber and T‑Mobile. Previously at The Action Network he helped scale the business through acquisition, owned performance optimizations and drove a custom CMS that tripled organic traffic and improved search rankings. He brings a pragmatic full‑stack approach—balancing UX and security in features like selfie authentication—and a focus on developer productivity, having standardized Cypress E2E testing and halved its runtime across teams. A UCLA alumnus, Derek pairs measurable business outcomes with engineering craftsmanship and a knack for improving operational efficiency.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (3)
javascript4
financial3
finance3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
derekchoe/derekchoe.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Repository for my portfolio page
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 3 months
javascript
derekchoe/algorithm-practice
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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