Derek Dahmer
AI Product Engineer at Brain Co.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Dahmer is an AI Product Engineer and full-stack software engineer with 15 years of experience building customer-facing web products and scaling engineering teams through hypergrowth. A YC founder and two-time early employee at rapidly growing startups, he specializes in React design patterns, large Node.js monorepos, and pragmatic infra like CI, Terraform, and observability. His background spans building high-throughput annotation pipelines at Scale AI, developer tooling and billing systems at Alchemy, and founding product-driven startups—demonstrating both hands-on coding and technical leadership. Based in San Francisco and currently engineering at brain.co, he pairs a strong product sensibility with experience optimizing systems that handle billions of rows and 100k+ human tasks per week. Notably, he’s built end-to-end developer tooling and interview processes that scale hiring and onboarding alongside product growth.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
15,195reputation
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facebook-graph-api
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security
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facebook
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websocket
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Github Skills (136)
relay-modern10
relay10
data-driven10
javascript10
browser10
react-applications10
server-side-rendering10
react10
facebook-graph-api9
graphql-ruby9
camera9
security9
ruby9
websocket9
webcamjs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ddgromit/takeout-hangouts
Dec 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
ddgromit/blotjot
Oct 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 10 months
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