Summary
Derek Pung is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with eight years of experience combining an architecture background and design-thinking into pragmatic, user-focused software. He has driven reliability, security, and CI/CD improvements across products—most notably designing a reusable multi-ownership model and accelerating test/deploy velocity by over 70%. Derek excels at turning research-grade prototypes into production services, from serverless marketplaces to BI tools that cut analysis time from weeks to a day. He mentors distributed teams on testing, AWS best practices, and code organization, and has a track record of improving documentation and translating business requirements into robust implementations. His unusual mix of formal architecture training and hands-on cloud engineering gives him a strong eye for scalable system structure and product-facing UX.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program Fall 2017, Exchange Program Fall 2017 at Hanyang University
NUS High School Diploma, NUS High School Diploma at NUS High School of Mathematics & Science
Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch Architecture at National University of Singapore