Say hi.

I'm Derek, an EECS student at Berkeley.

Currently interning at Doppel

Doppel

  • Security
  • Internship

Social engineering defense for companies like Robinhood, Coinbase and OpenAI. I shipped alert routing interpretability to 150+ customers and rebuilt the DNS tooling, which now recovers about 3,500 false positives a year.

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tash.cards

  • Fintech
  • Full-stack

A marketplace for graded trading cards that I built. About 700 trades and $22k in volume so far.

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Concept-Based Masking

  • Research
  • Adversarial ML

Defending image classifiers against adversarial patches without knowing how big the patch is or where it is. NeurIPS 2025: Reliable ML from Unreliable Data.

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Phantom

  • Research
  • Consulting

Studied how Gen Z uses Phantom's Kalshi prediction-market integration. We built a small trading game with real incentives and looked at how people actually bet.

Acorns

  • Product
  • Consulting

Go-to-market for a tipping feature that turns tips into micro-investments. Surveyed 120+ barbershops and shipped a Django MVP with a few partner shops.

Before Doppel