Derek Louie
CEO at Assist Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Louie is an experienced engineering leader and founder with 11 years building full‑stack products and scaling teams across top consumer and platform companies. He’s led product and architecture efforts at Roblox, Lyft, and Google—shipping social graph and immersive ads at scale, rearchitecting Lyft Pink into a subscriptions platform, and unifying Google Marketing Platform UIs. Based in the Bay Area, he now runs Assist Ventures, helping startups move from pre-seed to Series A with a hands‑on, milestone-driven approach. A frontend enthusiast by trade, Derek combines deep UI expertise with systems-level thinking and a track record of consolidating disparate products into coherent platforms. Notably, he’s comfortable switching hats between individual contributor work (shipping components and directives) and CEO-level fundraising and company building.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (24)
angularjs-material10
javascript10
material-ui10
material-design10
lts10
angularjs10
materialize10
angular10
typescript9
infrastructure9
todomvc6
ava6
dts6
typescript-definitions6
testing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DerekLouie/material
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:115 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
materialmaterial-designangular
DerekLouie/material2
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 11 days
materialmaterial-design-componentscomponents-designmaterial-designangular
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