Derek Yu
Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Yu is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems primarily in identity, authentication, and application security at Shopify. He blends an electrical engineering and operations management background with a Master’s in Embedded System Security and a research interest in applying machine learning to security problems. At Shopify he progressed from intern to senior technical leadership, shipping tooling for vulnerability dependency management and shaping Identity-focused security services. Derek is hands-on with low-level and infra work, enjoys building command-line tools, and actively maintains open-source projects on GitHub. His teaching experience in telecommunications and design methodology informs a pragmatic approach to system design, testing, and documentation. Curious and problem-driven, he seeks the most interesting technical challenges at the intersection of security, networks, and applied ML.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School International Baccalaurate, High School International Baccalaurate at Nanjing International SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Embedded System Security, Master of Engineering - MEng Embedded System Security at McGill University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
migration9
rake8
window-size7
maintenance7
mixins7
packaging7
python7
activemodel7
columns6
rails6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails5
package-manager5
activerecord5
dependency-management4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DerekYu177/dynamictableprint
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Wrapper around TablePrint to adjust columns to the window size
Contributions:6 releases, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
adjustcolumnswindowwindow-size
DerekYu177/PriceOptimization
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Scrape prices on Newegg using this CLI
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
pythonscrapepricesscrape-pricesscraper
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