Derek Hancock
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Hancock is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend systems and data governance tooling for companies like Reddit, Twitter, and Qualtrics. He’s delivered high-throughput services (millions of calls per day), led small teams to cut latency by up to 40%, and shipped privacy and compliance-focused tooling for sensitive datasets. Comfortable across languages and stacks—Go, Scala, Python, Java, React—and cloud platforms, he bridges data engineering, ads measurement, and product-facing services. His background includes machine learning research and simulator infrastructure work, giving him a practical edge when solving complex systems problems. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he combines hands-on engineering with security and on-call ownership to keep production systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS Computer Science Mathematics Minor, BS Computer Science Mathematics Minor at Brigham Young University
Portuguese
Github Skills (28)
simulator10
reinforcement-learning-environments10
generative-adversarial-network9
reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
simulation9
cyclegan9
computer-vision9
drones8
ai8
api7
salesforce6
code-generator6
unreal-engine-46
golang5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dereklh4/dereklh4.github.i
Feb 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:34 pushes in 4 years 4 months
dereklh4/cs256utilitytracker
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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