Derek Worthen
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Worthen is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building secure, high-performance web applications, currently contributing at Microsoft. He specializes in ASP.NET and .NET Core back ends, SPA front ends with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and DevOps practices including CI/CD and Azure DevOps. Derek has driven migrations from FTP to Git-based workflows, implemented continuous delivery pipelines, and built gRPC microservices and IdentityServer-protected REST APIs. An active open-source contributor, he implemented core Index API functionality and CI/CD integration for Microsoft’s notable graph-based RAG project. Based in Poulsbo, Washington, he pairs a computational mathematics background with a long-standing curiosity about the web—an interest that began in fourth grade and now informs both production systems and side projects tested from coffee shops. Outside work he’s a dedicated runner, bringing the same focus on speed and endurance to code and systems design.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Mathematics at Washington State University
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githubaction-workflow10
python10
apidoc10
cicd10
asyncio10
llm9
ag9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/graphrag
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 14 PRs, 66 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek focused on implementing the initial Index API, which is a core component of the graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. This included defining the API entry point, integrating configurations, and adding preflight validations. They also worked on integrating the project with CI/CD by adding artifacts in the GitHub actions. The user made several improvements to code organization, including improving imports and adding license headers.
gptgpt-4gpt4graphragllm
dworthen/apphost
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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