Derek Tse
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Tse is a software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCSD. At Google he focuses on news monetization, contributing to production-facing builds and complex build tooling, and has a history of internships that matured into a full-time role. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on the high-profile AMP project—fixing Babel plugin transformations, improving SxG builds, and adding coverage tooling—demonstrating attention to both frontend performance and build reliability. He has a strong academic background in algorithms and discrete math from teaching assistant roles at UCSD and research experience applying SQL-backed workflows to quantum chemistry datasets. Outside of work he’s a passionate student of Japanese language and culture, which he admits inspires both his spending choices and personal projects.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Stackoverflow
125reputation
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Github Skills (18)
babel610
javascript10
build-system10
babel-core10
babeljs10
esmodules9
html9
code-coverage8
css8
puppeteer7
sourcemaps7
getch6
argparse6
arraylist6
compareto6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 19 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek made several contributions focused on the AMP framework. Their work includes fixing bugs related to function transformations in Babel plugins, adding and modifying flags for the SxG (Signed Exchanges) build, and adding the `coverage-map` task for code coverage analysis. They also worked on enabling experiments, removing polyfills and features specifically for the SxG build, and modifying build configurations. They integrated features related to the SwG (Subscribe with Google) project as well.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
xiexr151e/amphtml
Jun 2020 - Mar 2023
The AMP web component framework.
Contributions:239 pushes, 51 branches in 2 years 9 months
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
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