hi, i'm derek wen

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I'm a graduate student at UCLA studying for a Master's in Applied Statistics and Data Science with a few years of work experience. I did my undergraduate at UCSD for a Bachelors in Data Science, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

Recently, I had the opportunity to intern at Amazon as a software development engineer. My main interest is applying statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to study user behavior and trends, but I am open to all types of opportunities!

I have a Youtube and a Spotify Artist where I share all my creative work.

career

work experience

July 2026 – Present

AT&T

Data Science Engineer

June 2025 – September 2025

Amazon - Prime Video

Software Development Engineer Intern

Developed a prototype web video player supporting a new proprietary Prime Video manifest format, reducing Time to First Frame (TTFF) by up to 600ms compared to the existing DASH implementation
Created a parser for the proprietary manifest format leveraging the binary encoding format FlatBuffers, achieving 0ms parsing time during playback startup

April 2023 – February 2024

Claritas

Data Science Intern

Developed a scalable PySpark pipeline, filtering over 1 million IP addresses across diverse data sources using multiple API integrations.
Automated the extraction of campaign data from Parquet files, calculated daily data quality metrics, and developed dynamic dashboards, saving 2 hours of daily manual work.

July 2021 – August 2021

Nurlink Technology

Data Analyst Intern

Created an automation tool to clean and preprocess incoming daily circuitry data and historical datasets, reducing manual processing time by ~1 hour/day.
Applied principal component analysis for 2D visualizations, isolating noise in output power.

Jan 2019 – June 2020

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Data Analyst Intern

Analyzed integrated circuit data, processing over 1,000 features across datasets of 50,000+ samples, identifying key trends and creating visualizations to enhance circuit performance.

building things