Derrick Lin
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Experience
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Sidesolve
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder
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Jan 2021 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
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Undisclosed
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Translation and Localization
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder
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Mar 2017 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area Tech for down-ballot (non-Presidential) political campaigns.
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BrightSky
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Software Development
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Co-Founder
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Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Real estate technology to identify leads for roofing contractors. Used image recognition on aerial photography to determine the conditions of buildings and identify damaged roofs.
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Radio Eden
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United States
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Research Services
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Logistics Coordinator
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Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Mountain View, CA Radio Eden ran residential co-living communities. These communities target adults of all ages with technical backgrounds or domain expertise in areas often overlooked by the startup world. Residents generally live with us when they first move to the area, and join a lively alumni community when they find their long-term housing.
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Tarski Technologies
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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Independent Contractor
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Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
First hire by founder and Thiel Fellow Jimmy Koppel. This project extended a prototype of a novel automated program repair tool to work on a series of timed debugging problems given as part of Quixey's software hiring funnel. The tool was able to automatically fix about 2/3rds of these. Program synthesis is an exciting field of computer science research, probably commercially best known and applied in FlashFill, a feature in Microsoft Excel. Work from this culminated in the QuixBugs… Show more First hire by founder and Thiel Fellow Jimmy Koppel. This project extended a prototype of a novel automated program repair tool to work on a series of timed debugging problems given as part of Quixey's software hiring funnel. The tool was able to automatically fix about 2/3rds of these. Program synthesis is an exciting field of computer science research, probably commercially best known and applied in FlashFill, a feature in Microsoft Excel. Work from this culminated in the QuixBugs dataset being published. Additionally, gained direct experience preparing and pitching to venture capitalists DFJ. Show less
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InsightSquared
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India
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Staffing and Recruiting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineering Intern
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Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
Cambridge, MA This startup company's offering was an analytics dashboard for small businesses. As part of a 5 person team responsible for all frontend work, I developed and maintained these customer-facing "screens". I instantiated and was responsible for one of the most important screens for customers -- the one allowing a fast and interactive understanding of a person or team's sales funnel.
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Recurse Center
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Student
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Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Brooklyn, NY Student in batch[3]. Studied fundamentals of software, with a focus on functional programming (Haskell, Scheme) techniques. As my first project, I wrote a simple data-verified streaming service and then a bittorrent client in order to learn network programming .
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Redwood Systems
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Renewables & Environment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Analytics Intern
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Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
Fremont The core product, a smart lighting system, was subjected to an internal usage experiment. I was responsible for analyzing the collected data and quantified the energy savings effect and properties. This was further extended into estimated effects under different conditions. Both results and simulated analysis were presented to the board and utilized in the company's marketing material.
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Education
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University of Michigan - School of Information
Information Economics -
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Bachelor's degree, Economics