Derek Dowling
Director Of Engineering at Together AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Dowling is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and leading teams through hyper-growth, currently running Product Foundations at Together AI. He has a deep front-end pedigree from architecting Twitch’s TV, Mobile, and Desktop web experiences and a strong full-stack background delivering billing, observability, and infrastructure improvements for cloud products. Known for turning high-risk systems like billing into business strengths, he combines pragmatic execution—breaking company-impacting roadmaps into rapid, incremental value—with hands-on technical craft. Derek has driven reliability gains (inference uptime to four 9s), modernized monorepos and shared JS platforms, and shipped reusable libraries and web-worker abstractions for constrained environments. He contributes to open-source projects (notably automated testing work in MarkUs) and favors engineering cultures rooted in transparency, quality, and measurable outcomes. Based in San Francisco, he blends platform-level strategy with keyboard-level engineering to accelerate product teams.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honors Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honors Computing Science at University of Alberta
English
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
test-framework10
rails10
automated-tests10
ruby-on-rails10
erb9
html9
parse-platform6
swift6
emberjs6
go6
subclassing6
icalendar6
ios6
ember-cli-mirage6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the development of automated testing features within the MarkUs system. They focused on implementing new test file upload functionality, including associated views and options. Significant changes were made to the `AutomatedTestsHelper`, `Assignment` model, and related views like `_form.html.erb`, indicating a focus on integrating and configuring automated test scripts. The commits also show efforts to fix submission issues and update the GUI for improved usability.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
dwradcliffe/hcl-lint
Nov 2015 - Oct 2023
Simple lint tool for HCL language
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years
linterlinthcllinting
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