Derek Miranda
Senior Frontend Engineer at Hearst Magazines
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Miranda is a Senior Frontend Engineer in New York with 10 years building performant, user-focused web applications and e-commerce experiences. He combines strong React/Next.js expertise and state management discipline with a history of optimizing build pipelines (Webpack, Rollup, Babel) to significantly reduce bundle size and accelerate load times. Derek co-created Nile.js, a trending open-source peer-to-peer live video streaming project that leverages WebTorrent and WebRTC to scale broadcasts, demonstrating hands-on full-stack and real-time systems skills. At companies from Hearst to Fair.com he’s bridged design and product needs with clear technical guidance, mentoring teams on standards and maintainable code. Trained as a civil engineer, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to front-end architecture and automation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering at University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
mediarecorder10
webtorrent10
javascript10
nodejs10
webrtc10
expressjs9
file-handling9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gitsummore/nile.js
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Scalable peer to peer live video streaming built on torrents and webRTC
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek contributed to the development of a scalable peer-to-peer live video streaming application. Their work involved implementing features in both the client-side and server-side components. They improved the user experience by clarifying console logs and added dependencies. They also worked on enabling the conversion of video data to torrent files and saving recorded video files.
scalabletorrentsp2pwebrtcstreaming
ff0000-ad-tech/webpack-rollup-babel-loader
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
Webpack loader that uses Rollup, which calls back into Webpack for module resolution.
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
webpack-pluginrollupwebpack-loaderwebpack3calls
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