Derek Troy-west
Software Engineer at factorhouse
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorDerek Troy-west is a Melbourne-based software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Factor House. He blends hands-on backend engineering with leadership, routinely shipping bug fixes and performance improvements in high-impact open-source projects. Notably, Derek has contributed to the widely used Netty framework, resolving subtle byte-buffer and HTTP decoding issues that improved reliability for asynchronous network applications. His background favors pragmatic, production-focused solutions that bridge developer ergonomics and system performance. Comfortable toggling between code and strategy, he brings startup grit and deep familiarity with networking internals to product-building.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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netty
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
http10
java10
bytebuffer10
javas10
bytecode10
byte-array10
async9
netty9
asynchronous9
networking9
codec8
jpa6
datastax-enterprise6
playframework6
clojure6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
netty/netty
Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Netty framework. They addressed issues related to `ReadOnlyByteBuffer` and `HttpContentDecoder`, resolving specific problems in byte buffer handling and HTTP content decoding. Their contributions included modifying code to correct issues, improve performance, and ensure the framework's reliability. Further improvements were made by addressing issues related to chunk delimiters in HTTP encoding and refactoring parts of `AggregatedFullHttpMessage`.
asynchronousasynchronous-networknionettyapplication-framework
troy-west/apache-kafka-number-stations-clj
May 2019 - Jul 2019
AK3W: Apache Kafka Workshop Code
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 2 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkworkshopapache
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