Derek Young
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Young is a lead engineer and strategic people manager with over a decade of experience building and scaling full-stack systems across startups and large tech companies. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact products—from immersive video playback and AI-driven tooling at Meta to computer-vision analysis platforms and geospatial UIs at percipient.ai—while remaining deeply hands-on in React, Next.js, Node, and performance-critical C++/Kotlin code. Derek combines product-minded architecture and process optimization with an empathy-first leadership style that emphasizes mentorship, testing, and developer velocity. Notably, he created AI-driven codemods and test-generation tooling that dramatically increased test coverage and reclaimed thousands of engineering hours. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he blends pragmatic engineering, strategic roadmap ownership, and a finance/accounting background that helps him translate technical tradeoffs into business impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorComputer Science, Computer Science at Metropolitan State University of DenverBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Accounting and Finance at Colorado Mesa University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
google-sign-in10
google-maps9
image-annotation-tool9
google-maps-javascript-api9
react-styleguidist8
react-native8
react-leaflet7
google7
react7
openseadragon7
maps7
mapview6
android6
image-processing6
iiif5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ImprobProbs/TakeABreak
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 41 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 days
greenfield
derek-young/TotemWebApp
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:107 pushes in 1 month
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