Derek Chung

About Me

SDE at Amazon. Class of 2024 MS in Computer Science. Seeking full time positions on the west coast

Location

Seattle, WA
Chicago, IL
Education
    Stanford University
    September 2018 - June 2022
    degree
    Bachelor's
    majors
    Computer Science
    Music
    Stanford University
    September 2022 - June 2024
Work Experience
    Amazon
    Software Engineer
    Seattle, WA, United States, 98194
    June 2023 - present
    company
    Amazon
    title
    Software Engineer
    overview
    • Managed an AWS pipeline syncing over 5 billion advertisement bids to Google & Bing • Developed and supported datapreprocessing and output pipelines for machine learning XGBoost models • Worked with data science to tune hyperparameters for optimizing customer engagement and clicks • Monitored over 15 automated daily SageMaker training and inference runs • Synced out portfolios improving cost-per-click ratio by over 20% in Q1 24 across NA, EU, and Asia • Migrated over 20 large-scale ETL jobs and components to PySpark + Scala based internal systems • Involved in the full deployment pipeline, including designs, code, code reviews, testing, large-scale deployments, monitoring, infrastructure maintenance, and ticketing • Handled over 60% of the team’s tickets during oncall period • Skills: Java, Scala, TypeScript, AWS SageMaker, DevOps, Python, PySpark, Maven, Selenium, Microservices, Junit, Machine Learning Distributed Systems, XGBoost
    Stanford University
    Teaching Assistant
    September 2022 - June 2023
    Amazon
    Software Engineering Intern
    June 2022 - September 2022
    Amazon
    Software Engineering Intern
    June 2021 - September 2021
    HUMANID
    software engineering intern
    New York City, NY, United States, 10075
    August 2020 - December 2020
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Fun Fact

I would rather be a musician than a software engineer if they got paid the same.

Skills
Apache HadoopAWS ECSAWS Lambdacc++Computer VisionDistributed SystemsjavajavascriptlinuxMachine LearningMultithreadingNvidia CUDAProblem SolvingPysparkpythonscalasqlTeam Leadershipunix
Gigs / Freelance
    Independent Project Development
    Car Simulator
    December 2019 - present
    Independent Project Development
    Pacman
    October 2020 - present
    Independent Project Development
    Escape the Project
    October 2020 - present
Leadership
    Stanford Artificial Intelligence Group
    Vice President of Operations
    September 2019 - September 2020
Github / Code
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Technical Skills
  • c
  • c#
  • c++
  • css
  • html
  • java
  • javascript
  • jquery
  • matlab
  • node.js
  • php
  • python
  • react.js
  • sql
  • swift
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