Derick O. Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I work across the product and across the stack, using words, code, and LLMs to bring quality one-on-one learning experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

As a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in Fiction, I taught undergraduate courses in UVA's English department to help students discover what, how, and why they write.- Public speaking, workshops, and group facilitation.- Pedagogy and Mentorship.- Syllabus design and course planning.

Charlottesville, VA & Exeter, NH

- Many side hustles from Farmers Markets and Coffee Shops to Museum workshops, Digital Humanities- Tech services: React/Next apps, Personal sites, Typescript, API integrations, and GraphQL servers.- Hobby projects involving NLP + LLMS: Tao Translations, BookTalk Chat, sentiment analysis (IsItFunny?) experiments in generative fiction, digital books, and.

Greater New York City Area

1stDibs is a marketplace for one-of-a-kind items with 5M+ monthly visitors. As a JavaScript developer on the Core Engagement and International teams, I wrote key integrations to launch the Internationalized eCommerce site.- Shipped responsive Mobile Web UX across Search / Browse / Product Detail Pages using React, Scss, and React Storybook.- Shipped.

San Francisco Bay Area

Remind helps students, teachers, and parents safely communicate in K-12 schools. As a Product Engineer on the Core Engagement team, I worked across the stack to ship features support a user base of 20M+ monthly users.- React, GraphQL, Node, Ruby on Rails, Go, AWS, Docker, and CircleCI.- Full-stack implementation of reaction emojis for Message Reactions.

New York

Foursquare is a location-based social network with 50M+ monthly users with a recommendations platform leveraging the power of geolocation. As a data engineering intern, I learned a ton from a team of Data Scientists. I supported the in-house Machine Learning pipeline using Scalding and Luigi MapReduce frameworks, improving Scala server performance, and.

Philadelphia, PA

I was a teaching assistant for several undergraduate courses, including: Functional Programming, Data Structures, and Theory of Computation.- Java, OCaml, LaTeX, and Javascript.- Led weekly presentations and assignments for groups 20-students.- Provided one-on-one mentorship on homework and exam preparation.- Assisted professors in various tasks such as.

Philadelphia

Worked with lead professor on data and text-based analysis of international conflicts involving non-state entities from the 1970s to present day.

Philadelphia

Event photography for the Office of University Life

Shanghai, China

Cross-functional intern working with members of IT and Marketing teams for a financial consulting firm.- Objective-C, Core Data, Swift, and SQLite.- Built iOS app (凯盛汇/KaiShengHui) for consultants to read and share in-house industry news, find new projects, find and RSVP to events, and view profile and existing project updates.- Collaborated with.

Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Sustrana provides consultations for Environmental Sustainability and Management, helping businesses navigate the tax and legal benefits of protecting their local environment. As an intern, I wrote 10,000+ words of educational content and modules, and helped the founders with their go-to-market strategy to expand from individual consultations to a web-based.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, East Asian Studies

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing (Fiction)