# Derek Ni

> Software Engineer @ Asana

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/derekni

Full-stack product engineer. Passionate about solving problems in productivity, health, and sustainability.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Asana
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Owned and delivered multiple high-visibility features:
• Default task types in projects
• Bulk conversion of tasks to subtasks
• Core custom field component redesigns (typeaheads for custom fields, UI redesigns for custom field creation / edit flows)
• Accessibility remediation in Asana’s custom field creation and edit flow to meet WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.

Maintained stability and performance of Asana’s web application as web on-call.

Helped ship custom fields throughout the product (task types, custom ID, formula, reference, rollups, timer).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Asana
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Built a typeahead for Asana custom fields, using Elasticsearch to filter search results. Designed new components, improved existing ones, and wrote documentation on new features.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Fizz (YC S21)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Backed by Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, A*, etc.
Developed a backend Firestore database to handle credit card and repayment logic, created a webhook using the Apto API to handle updating the backend for transaction updates, and incorporated changes into the mobile app using Flutter.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Redesigned an API for getting messages in the Alexa Messaging Service that migrated to a new payload and added encrypted pagination tokens.

### Mobile Engineering Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California
Worked on Tesla mobile app redesign using Typescript/React Native.

### Rolled Ice Cream Barista @ Monster Roll
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Fair Oaks, Virginia, United States
Made rolled ice cream and bubble tea.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, minor in Information Science (UX)
Cornell University

### Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derek-ni
- Portfolio: https://derekni.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29