Justin Derwee-church
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Derwee-church is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable back-end and infrastructure systems, currently working on Notification Infrastructure at Meta. A UBC Computer Science student with a track record from internships to full-time roles at Facebook/Meta, he has architected efficient real-time systems (e.g., a WebSocket replacement for polling that cut requests 10x+) and led Django and AWS infrastructure for production mobile apps. He combines strong backend fundamentals—GRPC, Scala microservices, DBSCAN/Delaunay clustering—and practical product impact, having shipped features adopted by thousands of users. His roots in competitive robotics and teaching robotics camps reveal a long-standing bias for hardware-aware problem solving and mentoring emerging engineers.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Sir Winston Churchill High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
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Github Skills (28)
mapbox-gl-js7
vector6
runner6
drawing6
tiles6
javascript6
mapbox-gl6
maps5
3d5
rocket5
geojson5
browser5
draw5
continuous-testing5
webgl5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yahengsu/kingdoms.tax
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
MuchToKnow/CPSC455
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 49 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 months
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