Derry Xu
Member Of Technical Staff at Arena
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDerry Xu is a machine learning researcher and software engineer with nine years of experience, currently focused on LLM evaluations as a Member of Technical Staff at Arena in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on ML research from Berkeley RISE Lab and practical backend engineering internships at Chegg, with experience in MLOps and search optimization. Derry has supported data science education at UC Berkeley as a TA and tutor, demonstrating clear communication skills and a commitment to mentoring. He values shipping over perfection—evident in his GitHub motto "DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT!!!"—and balances rigorous research with pragmatic system-building. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns evaluation insights into actionable improvements for large language models.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Data Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyGithub contributions (5)
IndieHolloWorld/test
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
FuckDerry/HtmlTest
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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