Derek Flenniken
Founder CTO at VAICRO
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Flenniken is a founder and CTO with 12+ years of experience building production systems that enable large-scale research—from MRI processing pipelines to participant recruitment platforms with 100,000+ registrants. Rooted in a UC Berkeley neurobiology background, he blends scientific rigor with full-stack engineering to design auditable, workflow-driven tooling (e.g., automated neuroimaging pipelines, an ISS image storage service that has indexed 250,000+ scans, and the ebisu recruitment platform generating 250k+ study referrals). He leads teams that deploy cloud-native, AI-enabled products—like an OpenAI/Twilio-backed voice interview platform—while hands-on implementing the underlying C#/ASP.NET, Python, SQL, and Azure infrastructure. Known for turning lab pain points into reusable, secure systems, he pairs deep domain knowledge of research workflows and data integrity with pragmatic, scalable architecture.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology - Neurobiology, BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology - Neurobiology at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (89)
razor10
google-home10
razorengine10
onvif10
template-engine10
parsing10
entity9
high-performance9
runner9
qualtrics9
netcore9
migration9
migration-tool9
dotnet-core9
csharp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
3nth/qualpy
Oct 2013 - Mar 2017
your Qualtrics buddy.
Contributions:70 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
buddyqualtrics
3nth/homebase
Jun 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:15 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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