Derrick Persson
Senior Software Engineer at IcePanel
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Persson is a senior full-stack engineer based in Vancouver with eight years of experience building web products using React, Vue, Svelte, Node.js and TypeScript. He has a strong startup pedigree—helping take products from 0 to 1 as a founding engineer at Squire AI and shipping AI agent patterns and evaluation baselines into production. Derrick blends hands-on development with product and technical PM responsibilities, designing internal tools, analytics, and patentable market-research features that bridge business needs and engineering. His background spans consumer mobile identity, blockchain ICO tooling, and high-impact e-commerce performance improvements, reflecting a bias for measurable outcomes. Ever-curious, he pairs an environmental-economics education with pragmatic engineering to tackle real-world problems and rapidly prototype solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Environmental Studies and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Environmental Studies and Economics at University of VictoriaEconomics, Economics at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenDiploma Computer Software Engineering, Diploma Computer Software Engineering at Lighthouse Labs
English
Github Skills (43)
git9
github9
cli8
react8
solidity8
react-native7
patch7
ethereum7
command-line7
react-navigation7
smart-contracts6
blockchain6
chrome-extension6
solc6
chatgpt6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
derrickpersson/derrickpersson.github.io
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
derrickpersson/solc-js
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Javascript bindings for the Solidity compiler
Contributions:41 reviews, 41 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 2 months
ethereumjavascriptblockchainsoliditycompiler
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