Summary
Jansen Derr is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems and startups from Austin, Texas. He led core backend development and microservice automation at Hitch—reducing identity verification costs and delivering a new sales flow for iOS—then transitioned to founding Loman AI in 2024. Earlier he co-founded ADVARK, where he combined SoC hardware, ML classifiers, Android SDKs, and a web CMS to deploy a real-time ad replacement device and managed over 1TB of video data and a lightweight sequence classifier with ~99.5% recall. Comfortable across the full stack, Jansen blends hands-on engineering, hardware integration, and ML deployment, and brings a pragmatic product focus informed by his UT Austin CS background.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Grapevine High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin