Derrick Mar

Derrick is co-founder and CTO of Pathrise, a career accelerator for students and young professionals looking to break into the tech industry. Pathrise was in Y Combinator, W 18. Before tackling the challenge of building the technical infrastructure of Pathrise, Derrick was a software engineer at Facebook, where he was one of the founding engineers of the team responsible for the first ever 3D Facebook posts. Before that, Derrick explored the intersection of AI and education, founding AI Grading, a platform that optimizes the grading and analysis of student practice exams in the test prep industry, and also working as one of the earliest software engineers at Gradescope.