# Derek Jones

> Building @ Rox | ex-Apple

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/derekjones

Software / ML Engineer with a background in statistics and optimization. Passionate about data, software, and everything in between.

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Rox
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Agent Foundations

### ML Engineer, Applied Machine Learning @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
AML Data Science team; forecasting, MCP, and agents

### Backend Engineer, Apple Store App @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
ITDP Rotational Program

### ML Engineer, Applied Machine Learning @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
ITDP Rotational Program, ML Platform and Search teams

### Viterbi Student Ambassador @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Represented Viterbi for prospective students at virtual and on-campus admissions events. 
Produced a variety of media including podcasts and social media content.
Hosted live events streamed to 200+ students.

### Intern, Real Estate and Legal Data Warehousing & Analytics @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Wrote and validated ad-hoc SQL queries for business stakeholders, dashboarding results in Tableau.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Carlsson Research Group at USC Viterbi
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Supported research efforts in optimization for capacitated vehicle routing problems (VRP). 
Wrangled given datasets (i.e., text files describing graphs with demand nodes) using Python and applied experimental transformations in order to improve solver runtimes in cases where node demand is splittable.
Completed tests using exact VRP solver running via Docker.

### Vice President @ Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Oversaw all internal operations of the California Delta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta

### Alumni Chair @ Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Collaborated with a committee of alumni to organize a reunion attended by 75+ regional alumni.

### Intern, Applied Machine Learning @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Co-developed an automated machine learning pipeline using Python

### Summer Intern @ LibDib, LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Intern for two summers. Aided database cleanup using Python; shot, edited, and distributed professional-quality photographs for client use; other data entry and office facilitation


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Operations Research Engineering
University of Southern California

### Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California

### Archbishop Mitty High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derek-jones-3150a7168

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Last updated: 2026-04-10