Derek K
Software Engineer at Coalition, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek K is a software engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience blending backend systems work in Golang, Java, and Python with cloud-native tooling on AWS and containerization via Docker. He has shipped production services at Coalition and EnergyHub, working with PostgreSQL/MySQL, gRPC/Protobuf, Temporal, and observability stacks like Datadog and Sentry. His background in materials engineering gives him a data-driven, experimental approach to product development—prototyping, measuring success with tests and metrics, and iterating based on stakeholder feedback. Comfortable across MacOS and Linux, he pairs systems-level thinking with front-end experience in React and JS, and has practical DevOps exposure including Terraform and Ansible. Outside work he’s a committed polyglot, actively learning languages (Russian and French among seven studied) which underscores a curiosity that fuels rapid learning across new stacks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Chinese, German, Russian
Github Skills (110)
programming-language10
javascript10
julialang10
root-finding10
science10
julia10
numerical10
pluto10
css10
machine-learning10
hpc10
manifold10
petsc10
reactive9
fundamentals9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cchan/doecalc
Feb 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 2 months
derikk/WePledge.to
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Coordination problems made easy!
Contributions:14 PRs, 44 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
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