Derek Tia
Engineering Manager at Alchemy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Tia is an engineering manager in San Francisco with 14 years of full-stack and backend experience building scalable systems for startups and large platforms. He has led technical teams and owned critical payment, creator-rewards, and targeting backends at Pinterest and Alchemy, combining hands-on implementation with cross-functional coordination for product, payments, and audit needs. Derek has a strong history of migrating monoliths to microservices and shipping billing and subscription platforms that automate formerly manual business processes. Earlier roles at Skycatch, Vurb, PagerDuty, and Salesforce demonstrate deep experience across robotics-related data pipelines, mission planning, front-end/back-end infrastructure, and analytics. He pairs practical curiosity about machine learning, robotics, and self-driving cars with a proven track record of mentoring engineers and delivering auditable, production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, B.S Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dtia/Python-Exercises
Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:38 commits in 7 months
dtia/elaina-portfolio-site
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:72 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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