Derek Derek Choi

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Engineering Manager at Ashford Financial | ex-Dell Technologies

Ashford Financial
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
6+ years experience
UC San Diego
English
Advising
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Overview

I lead real-time systems at Ashford Financial in Boston. Shipped 21 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on real-time systems
  • Questions about real-time systems
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on WebSockets
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
ElixirGoOWASPWebSockets
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closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: real-time systems and OWASP

Topics
real-time systems, OWASP, Go
Format
Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
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One call a month
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Seed to Series A teams

6 years of real-time systems. One call a month or async reviews.

Boston, MAelixirowaspgo
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Ashford Financial · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Moved 88% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the WebSockets service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
  2. Software Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
    Dell Technologies · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped 8 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 853ms to 166ms.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
    Boeing · 1 yr 6 mo · Contract · Boston, MA
    • Wrote the Elixir service that now handles 79 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. UC San Diego
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2015 - 2019

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