Derrick Koo
Newspack Product Team Lead at Automattic
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Koo is a product-focused software engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience blending publishing and web engineering, currently leading the Newspack product team at Automattic from Denver. He rose through front-end and JavaScript roles—at 10up and Automattic after a decade of digital production and editorial-technology work at The New Yorker—bringing rare domain expertise at the intersection of newsroom workflows and modern web platforms. Derrick is skilled at translating editorial needs into scalable, user-focused product features and has a track record of shipping front-end-driven solutions for large media organizations. His MA in Journalism and early production roles give him an uncommon empathy for content teams, informing pragmatic product decisions that balance editorial constraints with technical excellence.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Journalism, MA, Journalism at New York UniversityBA, History, BA, History at Columbia University in the City of New YorkByram Hills High School
Github Skills (117)
payment-gateway10
andriod10
android-calendar10
gutenberg10
woocommerce-subscriptions10
javascript10
wordpress10
wordpress-api10
api10
notification10
payment10
mechanism10
tooltips10
popup-window10
ads10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dkoo/koolerplate
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
dkoo/yumhut
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 8 branches in 3 months
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