Derick Yang
Staff Software Engineer at Strava
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerick Yang is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building data and backend systems, currently shaping platform and metro server architecture at Strava. A Tufts-educated mathematician and computer scientist, he progressed from data platform work at Wealthfront to senior engineering roles at Strava, demonstrating a strong track record of shipping scalable, production-grade services. He combines deep engineering rigor with product sensibility, often bridging data infrastructure and service reliability. Outside core duties he publishes projects on his personal site and GitHub, reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on approach to turning ideas into reality.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Tufts UniversityHigh School, High School at South Kingstown High School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
463reputation
11kreached
5answers
12questions
Github Skills (49)
aws-lambda10
azure-functions10
aws10
serverless-framework10
lambda10
serverless10
google-cloud-functions9
aws-dynamodb9
nodejs9
cloud-services9
mongodb9
odm9
stream-processing9
serverless-architectures9
data-integration8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dyang108/diningdata
May 2016 - Jul 2022
RESTful API that pulls menu data from Tufts dining sites
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 years 3 months
restrestful-api
dyang108/d3fun
Nov 2016 - Sep 2021
a helloworld for d3
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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