# Derek Gould > Software Engineer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/derekgould Give me code, I'll make it more efficient. Give me an idea, I'll develop it (in more ways than one). Give me an ocean and waves, I'll surf them. Just don't simply give it to me, that would be too easy. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Paradigm Jan 2024 – Present ### Founding Full-stack Software Engineer @ Galileo AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Galileo is generative AI for website and app designs using industry best practices that can then be exported to Figma or code. I was the first full time employee so had my hands everywhere even setting up much of the infrastructure and helping define the product roadmap. One of the most impactful projects I owned was implementing export to Figma which, due to the nature of the app and the limited functionality of Figma's plugin API, required reverse engineering Figma's copy/paste functionality and writing an algorithm to convert HTML and CSS to Figma's proprietary format. Another impactful project was implementing HTML/CSS code export for designs generated in the app. In addition, I built an integration with Repl.it which meant users could go from an idea to a fully deployed (but not super functional) website in 5 minutes. Toward the end of my time at the company I was working on expanding the code export to support React code which required prompt engineering using GPT-4o. I was able to build a prototype but our priorities shifted so I wasn't able to complete the project. ### Founding Full-stack Software Engineer @ Bento Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Bento was an everboarding as a service platform allowing customers to embed a custom onboarding and everboarding experience directly in their product (actually inline using WebComponents/ShadowDOM instead of iframes) and modify it at any time without needing to rely on engineering. When I joined I was the most experienced IC on the team so when the CTO left shortly thereafter I stepped into an engineering leadership role. I was still an IC but was then also the source of guidance for all things engineering short of people management. One of the most impactful projects I built at Bento was the WYSIWYG capabilities which serve as the foundation of all the no-code aspects of the product. From that I was able to build the functionality to allow customers to inject their onboarding guides inline anywhere on their site, select elements which should have tooltips, and even allow non-visual features like choosing elements which should automatically complete steps in guides when clicked. Apart from the many other features I worked on, I was deeply involved in systematically and iteratively modernizing and optimizing the code to bring it from "spit and bandaids" typical of a young startup's codebase to something much more scalable and maintainable in the long term. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area I joined as part of the acquisition of Chartio and the work started to convert the general BI platform that was Chartio into what would eventually become Atlassian Analytics to bring together data from across the entire Atlassian platform as well as external sources. Following on from the last project at Chartio I was chosen to lead the Visualizations team tasked with modernizing and componentizing the dashboards and charts so they can be easily "embedded" in any Atlassian product. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chartio Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Chartio (acquired by Atlassian in Feb 2021) was a modern BI platform which prioritizes ease of setup and use for both technical and non-technical users. About a year into my tenure I was chosen to spearhead the technical design and development of an entirely new chart builder. The intent was to make the experience much faster and easier while keeping functional parity with the "legacy" chart builder while setting up a foundation upon which to expand the functionality more easily in the future. Once that project was released and winding down I then moved to lead the technical design and development of a new chart rendering library to improve the capabilities and performance of charting on the platform until the company was acquired by Atlassian. ### Web Developer and Designer @ Freelance Jan 2005 – Jan 2018 I have done various freelance web development and design jobs ranging from simple 1-3 page static websites to fully fleshed out web apps, and everything in between. The technologies used in these projects include: AngularJS, Node.js/Express, PHP/Symfony2, Python/Django/Flask, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Google App Engine, Heroku plus much more. ### Senior Front-end Software Engineer @ Birst Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Birst is the global leader in Cloud BI and Analytics. The company helps organizations make thousands of decisions better, every day, for every person. Birst's patented 2-tier data architecture and comprehensive BI platform sits on top of all of your data, to unify, refine and embed data consistently into every individual decision—up and down the org chart. Thousands of the most demanding businesses trust Birst Cloud BI to make metric-driven business execution a reality. I'm on the Dashboards team building the next-gen experience for Birst's customers. Our product allows users to build robust, massively data-driven dashboards for easy consumption on the desktop as well as mobile, on tablets and soon phones. I'm also our team's liaison to the Mobile team and have built the API to bridge the native and web portions of both the iOS and Android hybrid apps. We use AngularJS as our frontend framework. ### CWO & Co-Founder @ Venturocket, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 Venturocket is the fastest and easiest way to discover your perfect job. One click instantly retrieves your best matches so you can stop wasting time searching. The best part is you can contact the hiring manager directly for free. I was primarily the Front-end software engineer and (for a time) designer. I'm also heavily involved in product development and UI/UX design and development. Most of the work was done in PHP using Symfony2 with AngularJS (including jQuery) as our JavaScript framework. Other projects were built using Python with Django and Node.js with Express. ### CWO & Co-founder @ Circlebid Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 CircleBid was an online auction platform built around communities. Many online forums have a "Free and For Sale" section which rarely have any real structure. CircleBid aimed to fix that by giving those communities a much more structured platform on which to buy and sell items. I was mainly in charge of Front-end development and design including UI/UX development and general product development as well. We were using the LAMP stack and Mootools as our javascript framework. ### Software Engineer @ Biomedix Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Biomedix offers a system to help in the monitoring of food temperatures for use in food production facilities to aid in maintaining health and safety compliance. They also produce small, inexpensive, shippable kits to allow said facilities as well as retail/grocery store to easily send in samples of their food to test for various foodborne pathogens. I was tasked with helping to build a solution that would interface hardware sensors into their existing monitoring platform to automate the data entry. The goal was to eventually build an end-to-end system that the production facilities would package along with shipments so they could ensure their food stays within health code requirements all the way to the destination. We used Java application to interface with the hardware sensors and the monitoring system. and would install a small PC and a separate wifi network in the facility to ensure the system would function properly. ## Education ### Computer Science Cal Poly Pomona ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/drgould - GitHub: https://github.com/drgould --- Source: https://flows.cv/derekgould JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/derekgould/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10