Derek Shih
Senior Software Engineer at KKStream Limited
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Top SchoolDerek Shih is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with 11 years of experience building web and mobile applications and developer tooling. He specializes in front-end architecture and reusable component design, currently leading web player and shared-component development at KKStream while coaching engineering teams on maintainability and modern best practices. Derek has a proven track record of improving delivery workflows—migrating teams from SVN to Git, instituting CI/CD and pull-request culture, and moving monolithic .NET apps to React-based front ends. He combines hands-on implementation with product-minded consultation, helping product managers and leads balance new feature requests against long-term technical cost. Comfortable across full-stack web and native mobile integrations, he focuses on pragmatic reuse to reduce future development effort.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (55)
drm10
offline-mode10
mse10
dom10
playback10
video-player10
player10
livescript10
preact10
video-streaming10
nodejs10
vod10
javascript9
virtual-dom9
redux9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dk00/web-app-tools
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:11 releases, 57 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 6 months
BlendVision/web-player-samples
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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