I'm Derek Viet.

I'm a Full-Stack Software Engineer currently working at Credera developing modern, creative, and robust software solutions in web development and generative AI.

About Me

My professional interests are in the fields of full-stack software development, ML/AI engineering, systems software, and cybersecurity. I have a broad set of technical knowledge and I love solving problems and designing systems. I'm a team player and am good at breaking down complex concepts for others. In my free time, I enjoy video games, anime/manga, tabletop RPGs, language learning, cooking, and digital art.

Programming Languages

Python; C#; TypeScript/JavaScript; SQL; Java; C++; HTML; CSS; Bash

Frameworks & Tools

.NET; Spring; React; Node.js; FastAPI; SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server); NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB); Linux; Docker; Nginx; Terraform; Redis; Spark; Databricks; PyTorch; Tensorflow; Electron; Express; Flask; Git; Postman; Jira; Confluence; Miro

Cloud Platforms

AWS (S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB, SageMaker); Microsoft Azure (App Service, SQL Database, DevOps, Data Factory)

Certifications

CompTIA Security+

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer

Credera • Sep 2023 - Present

Led team’s integration work, representing the team in regular cross-team meetings on requirements gathering, QA testing, and user journey with 20+ developers, BAs, project-level managers, and business stakeholders.
Designed and developed the core algorithm for an LLM-powered web scraper, achieving a highly performant 98.7% base accuracy and cutting existing data scraping costs by 97%.
Built out RESTful API endpoints and extensible object-oriented systems for backend microservices using C#/.NET and Python/FastAPI.
Rearchitected a frontend React application in TypeScript to enhance UI scalability and modularization.
Designed and implemented an event-driven cloud architecture for cross-system integration using AWS EventBridge, Lambda, ECS, S3, & Terraform.
Optimized Docker image build times by >90% and developed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
Integrated backend REST APIs with Databricks Unity Catalog using Spark and Databricks SQL.

Software Engineer Intern

Credera • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

Built a full-stack web application using Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript/React.
Increased developer efficiency by 25% by creating an admin console using C#/.NET.
Integrated an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application with ~6 serverless Azure Functions.
Wrote unit tests for existing backend capabilities in C# using XUnit and Moq.

Student Technician, Service & Engineering Team

Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center • Dec 2021 - May 2023

Developed a 24/7 hardware monitoring bot using Python and Netdata REST APIs.
Wrote Bash and Python scripts for spinning up Docker applications and reformatting CSV data.
Hosted 10+ public presentations on Linux, computer networking, cloud computing, VMs, containerization, CPU architectures, assembly languages, and operating systems.
Mentored coworkers in software development, Git, and Docker containers.

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

Minors: Mathematics & Cybersecurity

Honors Thesis: "The Effects of ML Architecture on Hybrid Meeting Speaker Detection Accuracy."

- Magna Cum Laude, Engineering Honors

- Texas A&M Cybersecurity Club Webmaster

- Red Hat Academy Student Ambassador

Featured Projects

Here are a few of the personal projects I've worked on in my spare time.

Livestream Highlighter

A Google Chrome extension for analyzing and detecting trends in the live chats of YouTube livestreams.

Created with

Chrome Extensions API
JavaScript
CSS

Screen Translator

An Electron.js-based desktop application for automatically translating on-screen text.

Created with

Node.js
Electron.js
JavaScript, HTML, & CSS
Cloud Vision API
DeepL API

Autoregressive FFNN

A continuously learning Discord bot that uses a feedforward neural network to predict your decisions based on user data.

Created with

Python
pandas
scikit-learn
discord.py

Containerized Cloud App

A containerized Python + Flask application deployed to AWS with a CI/CD pipeline.

Created with

Docker
AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, CloudFront, ECS, ECR, Elastic Beanstalk, CodeBuild, CodePipeline)
Python + Flask

Getting in touch

contact@derek-viet.com

For any business inquiries, feel free to contact me at the email address listed above.

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