Derrick Or
Director, Product Design at Confluent
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Or is a Director of Product Design at Confluent with 13 years of experience blending product design, frontend engineering, and team leadership to ship developer-focused real-time data products. He scales and mentors high-performing design teams while still diving into UI development and frontend implementation when projects demand it. His background spans startups and large tech—cofounding an ad startup acquired by Yahoo and driving product and engineering work across Yahoo’s Ads, Publishing, and consumer products. Derrick contributes to open-source infrastructure efforts like the Apache Kafka site, improving its UI, mobile responsiveness, and brand integration for a widely used streaming platform. Based in California with a B.S. in Computer Science and Digital Art from UC Irvine, he pairs design sensibility with practical engineering chops. Outside work he tinkers in his garage on scooters, bikes, and side projects, a hint at his hands-on curiosity and iterative approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
site-design10
apache-kafka10
website-design10
javascript9
scala4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka-site
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
Mirror of Apache Kafka site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 33 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derrick's contributions focus on enhancing the Apache Kafka site's user interface and overall design. They implemented a new design, including mobile adjustments and style updates. The user also updated various HTML elements, added a sub-navigation system, and integrated Apache branding guidelines throughout the site. Additionally, they fixed issues with rewrite rules and javadoc links.
apache-kafkaapachedatastreambig-datascala
derrickdoo/kafka-site
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
Mirror of Apache Kafka site
Contributions:77 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapachekafkajava
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