Derek Yang
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Yang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building consumer and infrastructure software at top tech companies, currently working on Pixel devices and smartwatches after roles at Google and Amazon. He has hands-on experience migrating voice applications to ML-driven dialog systems and improving backend reliability—evidenced by contributions to django-report-builder where he fixed complex one-to-one relationship bugs, added async Celery tests, and integrated APIs. A University of Michigan CS alumnus based in New York, Derek combines systems-level engineering with product-focused delivery across mobile and server-side stacks. Outside work he channels the same creative drive—originally sparked by building with Legos—into music production and outdoor sports, reflecting a pragmatic but curious approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (6)
python10
django10
testing10
rest-api9
celery9
git8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
burke-software/django-report-builder
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
This is a github mirror for django-report-builder which is hosted on Gitlab. Django Report Builder is a GUI for Django ORM. Build custom queries and display results. Targets sys admins and capable end users who might not be able to program.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on improving the Django report builder's backend functionality. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to one-to-one relationships, adding and refactoring unit tests for asynchronous Celery tasks, and integrating an API to the backend URLs. This involved modifications to core application logic, including utils, views, and API endpoints, demonstrating a focus on improving reliability, and adding new functionalities.
pythondjangoableend-usersorm
Tofumaker/phase-0-tracks
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:115 PRs, 95 pushes, 46 branches in 1 month
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