# Dereck (Chongxin) Luo

> Software Engineer at TikTok

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dereck

I'm currently working at TikTok with focus on TikTok Data Privacy and Privacy Security.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
Leading the large data privacy and privacy security initiative projects within TikTok.
(Project Texas: https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about/)
(Project Clover: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-ie/project-clover-ireland)

* Delivered large scale security privacy infrastructure based on L7 Internet Content Interception Gateway. 
* Handles large scale TikTok public traffic (mil QPS level), with low latency. Provides data privacy security assurance for all TikTok users.

### Senior Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
Responsible for TikTok account services and user growth services development.

* Delivering feature sets towards TikTok account services, which helps to converge TikTok active user growth.
* Manage TikTok account services related offline data bases, setup stable and secured data pipelines, and provide data analysis for various TikTok internal teams.
* Carry out technical development and support for various TikTok user growth activities, and public campaigns.

### Software Engineer, Blockchain Platform @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Implement architectural improvements to the open source Hyperledger Fabric project

### Software Engineer, IBM Blockchain Incubator @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Responsible for the full stack development with a strong focus on the front-end UI development of a next generation token platform. 

Key Contributions:
* Developed and delivered highly consumable user experience using React and Carbon Design System.
* Co-lead the front-end architecture design, which included practices with Apollo Client, React, Redux, and Reusable-modules. 
* Implemented graphQL schema stitching proxy service to support API implementation flexibility and fast past front-end development. 
* Managed CI/CD process fo UI microservice. 
* Full-stack developed the scouting project (playground wallet), serviced as technology investigation for the main project.
* Helped on-boarding new team members

### IMC Financial Market Intern @ IMC - financial markets
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chicago
Responsible for learning trading terminologies and strategies, and implement high speed automated trading applications using Java. 

Key Outcomes:
* Implemented a high performance automated trading application running on test exchange trading platform using Java. 
* Used highly optimized data structures to increase the performance of trading application. 
* Practiced test-driven development ethics, which heavily focused on unit tests implementations.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Working with six to eight students on advanced engineering problems in Supervised Study Sections. Holding regular office hours, helping students with their Machine Problems. Working one-on-one with students during lab sections, helping them with basic programming algorithms and debugging skills.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Applied machine learning, Data mining
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dereckluo

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Last updated: 2026-03-22