Derek Morrison

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VP of Engineering at Helix AI · Embedded systems · C, ARM Cortex-M

Helix AI
Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Stanford University
English
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Overview

Currently at Helix AI, where I lead embedded systems with a team of 7. Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Bank of America and Pinterest. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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Skills
CARM Cortex-Mhardware bring-upRTOS
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Building out firmware at Helix AI: frontend engineers wanted in Minneapolis

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$170k-$225k + equity
Team
Firmware, 12 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with C Production experience with RTOS Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $153k-$294k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Helix AI · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Shipped 18 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 701ms to 72ms.
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
    Bank of America · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Director of Engineering
    May 2020 - Sep 2021
    Pinterest · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 21 a week to 4.
    • Shipped 29 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2018 - May 2020
    Procter & Gamble · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
    Meta · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Sit on 2 boards.

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Education

  1. Stanford University
    BS, Information Technology
    2000 - 2004

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