Derek Ruths
Associate Professor Of Computer Science
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Ruths is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at McGill University with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry practice. He combines deep research expertise from his PhD at Rice University with hands-on technical leadership as Chief Architect at Petro.ai and co-founder roles at Macromeasures and Advanced Reality. Derek also leads philanthropic analytics as President of Charitable Analytics International, showing a rare blend of technical rigor and social impact. His consulting stint with Facebook and ongoing university role reflect a career that moves fluidly between building production systems and mentoring the next generation of researchers. Based in Montreal, he is known for translating complex computational ideas into practical architectures that scale in real-world domains.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Rice University
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Github Skills (34)
snap10
multi-user10
microk8s10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub9
cicd9
ipython9
iot9
k8s9
python8
argparse8
kubernetes8
jupyter8
chrome-extension7
bash7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
druths/icssplitter
Apr 2017 - Dec 2023
A script to split up big ics files
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
splitpythonicsics-filesbash
druths/arghandler
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
An extension to argparse that adds high-level and time-saving capabilities
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
capabilitiesargparsehigh-levelchrome-extension
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