Derrick Cho
Founder at Ainbr
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Cho is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building AI-driven products, from recommendation systems and visual search to AIOps and data pipelines. He founded Ainbr, a whiskey app that uniquely applies computer vision and ML to let users find and compare bottles by visual features, and previously led R&D teams at The Princeton Review and ST Unitas across New York and Seoul. Derrick combines hands-on engineering, product-focused research, and operational know-how—having scaled real-time systems and recommendation engines at consumer and education tech companies. He also brings a practical security mindset from competitive hacking and programming contests, and a knack for turning research prototypes into production services. Based in Portland, he balances entrepreneurial curiosity with deep technical delivery in AI, search, and product matching.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Web operation, Web operation at Sunrin Internet High SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Software and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software and Computer Engineering at Ajou University
English
Github Skills (200)
env10
dashboard10
postgresql10
instagram10
sentence10
python10
switch10
nearest-neighbors10
telegram10
deep-learning10
model-conversion10
spotify10
clustering10
rss10
twitter10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flrngel/simple-estimator-and-sagemaker
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Simple guide to use tf.estimator and deploy to AWS SageMaker
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 5 months
sagemakercost-optimizationmachine-learningaws-sagemakeraws
flrngel/FHC-Framework
May 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:94 commits in 1 year 8 months
mvc-modelphpframeworkphp-frameworkmvc
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