Steve Derico
Founder - Engineer at Dottie AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Derico is a founder and engineer with 13 years of experience building consumer and enterprise apps, now leading Dottie AI to create an agentive mac assistant for healthcare and beyond. He’s the author of O’Reilly’s Introducing iOS and has shipped 100+ apps for Fortune 500 clients including BMW, Amazon, Coca‑Cola and MGM. A veteran iOS developer and full‑stack technologist, his toolkit spans Objective‑C/Swift, Node.js, Rails, Python, and PostgreSQL, and he’s launched over 20 self‑owned products through Bixby Apps. He teaches as well as builds—having instructed 500+ students and guest lectured at UC Berkeley—so he blends product instincts with effective knowledge transfer. Notably, his indie projects include private AI assistants and open‑source starters, reflecting a bias toward practical tooling that accelerates others. Based in San Francisco and a longtime @sfgiants fan, he pairs startup grit with enterprise delivery experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
SkyDeck Startup Incubator 2020, Business, SkyDeck Startup Incubator 2020, Business at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (13)
backend5
scaffolding4
data-models3
react-native2
afnetworking1
objective-c1
xcode1
swift1
macos1
ios1
tvos1
cocoapods1
swiftui1
Github contributions (5)
stevederico/beatHF
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
stevederico/SDScaffoldKit
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:76 commits in 4 months
scaffoldingcore-datadata-models
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