Derek Gui
Senior Field Application Engineer
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDerek Gui is a Senior Field Application Engineer based in Auckland with 9 years of hands-on embedded and firmware development experience across ARM Cortex-M, NRF BLE, FPGA, and ASIC verification. He has moved from product-focused firmware roles to customer-facing FAE positions, blending low-level C/C++ and Verilog expertise with pragmatic system design and performance profiling. Derek co-founded a robotics education initiative, developing STEAM curricula and coaching competition teams, showing his commitment to mentoring the next generation of engineers. His background includes developing medical dispatch and sensor-fusion systems, indicating strong skills in real-time systems, data-driven logic, and cross-disciplinary product delivery. A winner of industry FAE awards and a frequent technical presenter, he excels at translating complex chip and SOC capabilities into working customer solutions. He emigrated to Auckland in 2016 for its innovation culture and continues to thrive by combining technical depth with hands-on client engagement.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Science and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (5)
cpp3
sdl3
game-development3
game-engine2
opengl2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
derekgui/TDD-Dojo-Soundex
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
derekgui/CppND-Program-a-Concurrent-Traffic-Simulation
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
The final project for the Udacity C++ Nanodegree Concurrency course
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
cppconcurrencynanodegreeudacity
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