Derek Prothro
Founding Engineer at Cove
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Prothro is a systems-minded founding engineer with nine years of professional experience designing and building full-stack web platforms, currently shaping Cove’s visual AI workspace after roles at City Storage Systems and Uber. He blends TDD-driven frontend and backend development with deep systems design, having implemented databases, JavaScript frameworks, and AJAX-rich UIs as well as lower-level device drivers and hardware control software. His background spans startups and large-scale operations—from Google and Uber to embedded systems at Applied Biosystems—enabling him to move fluidly between product-facing UI work and infrastructure-level engineering. Notably, he has experience bringing LabVIEW-based desktop and embedded projects into production, a skillset that informs his pragmatic approach to integrating hardware-aware concerns into web ecosystems. Based in Greater Cleveland, he pairs Stanford MS-level training with entrepreneurial instincts from co-founding MixMatchMusic, making him comfortable both shipping product features and shaping long-term architecture.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (2)
logger8
logging7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
uber/logtron
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
A logging MACHINE
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 1 month
loggerlogging
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