Derrick Chenbuilding things that sometimes work

Student

Georgia Institute of Technology BS Computer Science
Expected December 2027 | GPA 3.70

• Coca-Cola First Generation Scholar
• Zell Miller Scholar
• Greek Life - Dir. of Career Dev
• WebDev @ GT
• Blockchain @ GT
• Intramural Sports

Where I've
Worked

• Software Engineer Intern Incoming Walmart Global Tech Bentonville, AR Summer 2026
• Software Developer Intern Incoming IBM San Jose, CA Fall 2026
• Software Engineer Intern BigID Atlanta, GA June Aug 2025 Built ETL pipelines in Node.js for AWS Security Lake, reducing data ingestion time by 100x. Achieved 80%+ Jest test coverage.
• Undergraduate Researcher GROWER Research Lab Atlanta, GA Aug Dec 2024 Scraped & analyzed 1M+ power outage records with Python/Pandas; collaborated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

What I've
Built

• GT Notes Fullstack note-sharing web app with 480+ users. JWT + OAuth 2.0 auth, PostgreSQL schema, AWS S3 file storage. TypeScript React Node.js AWS PostgreSQL Drizzle ORM
• Movie Atlas Movie discovery platform with 10,000+ titles. 20% faster page loads via SSR; 66% reduced search latency via caching. TypeScript Next.js TailwindCSS TMDB API
• MedScan Flask web app integrating PyTorch TorchXRayVision for x-ray diagnosis. SQLite caching reduces repeat AI response time. Python Flask PyTorch SQLite

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