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I’m a Member of Technical Staff at Octen.ai, leading the finance search vertical. Before that, I was co-founder and CTO of a venture-backed startup building composable compute infrastructure for AI agents, which is a sentence that generates a lot of follow-up questions at family dinners. I'm originally from Myanmar, grew up in Singapore, and still live here, mostly indoors, because of the humidity.

My interests in no particular order are:

  • startups
  • search engines
  • training neural networks
  • offensive security (with written permission)
  • math and physics
  • brazilian jiujitsu
  • sitcoms, the same four on rotation, as a coping mechanism
  • anime (watching, not dressing up)
  • coffee, as a load-bearing substance
  • making protein ice cream with my Ninja Creami

This site is where I write things down so I stop explaining them to people who didn't ask.

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If you have a question or just want to say hello, you can reach me at derekdewreck <at> gmail <dot> com.

I’m also elsewhere on the internet:

  • Shit-posting and shit-talking on X
  • Code and other work on GitHub