Summary
Derrick Dominic is a software engineer specializing in site reliability engineering with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-scale systems informed by a strong background in robotics and machine learning. He has moved from core autonomy and perception work at Waymo to applied AI systems at MITRE and now focuses on reliability and operational excellence at Google. Derrick brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise—electrical engineering training from Princeton and an MS in Robotics from Michigan—that helps him bridge hardware-aware algorithms and cloud-native software. Colleagues know him for tackling hard, high-impact problems while continuously learning, and for translating research-grade techniques into maintainable, scalable infrastructure. Notably, his career path reflects hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of autonomous systems, giving him a rare perspective on both edge robotics and large-scale SRE.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Robotics, Master of Science (M.S.), Robotics at University of Michigan
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
Tamil, English