Derek Wang
Principal Software Engineer at Intuit
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wang is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of focused experience building and stabilizing cloud-native, distributed systems. At Intuit he leads major open-source projects, including argo-events and numaflow, contributing backend and DevOps expertise to Kubernetes-native streaming and event-driven automation platforms. His prior work at eBay driving OpenStack compute provisioning demonstrates deep operational experience optimizing performance, scheduling, and scalability for large private clouds. Derek is known for pragmatic engineering: fixing critical bugs, hardening security dependencies, improving tests, and adding features like UDF/UDSink environment exposure and JetStream auto-reconnect. He blends hands-on coding with infrastructure-level thinking, often surfacing improvements that reduce operational drift in production systems. Colleagues rely on him to turn brittle distributed workflows into resilient, well-tested services.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electronic Engineering, Bachelor Electronic Engineering at Nanjing University
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
jetstream10
testing10
workflow-engine10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
data-processing9
devops9
stream-processing9
automations8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
numaproj/numaflow
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-native platform to run massively parallel data/streaming jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1589 reviews, 344 commits, 821 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Derek made contributions primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the numaflow project, with a focus on fixing bugs and enhancing tests. They addressed security vulnerabilities by updating dependencies and implemented features like exposing environment variables in User Defined Functions (UDF) and User Defined Sinks (UDSink). Their work also extended to infrastructure by enabling JetStream auto-reconnection and optimizing the codebase for performance improvements.
dcosdata-streamkubernetes-nativepipelinestreaming-jobs
argoproj/argo-events
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Event-driven Automation Framework for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:996 reviews, 727 commits, 1166 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Derek made significant contributions to the `argoproj/argo-events` repository, focusing on improving code generation and addressing issues related to the codebase. They implemented features that involved modifying the API documentation. Additionally, they worked on fixing inconsistencies and adding conditions to jetstream event bus.
cloudeventsframeworkevent-driven-automationkubernetesautomation
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