Duke Aero
Engineering and programming flight computers, developing custom RF video streaming solution, redesigning the website, and more for Duke Aero: Duke's premier aerospace society. Sending rockets to 30,000ft and higher yearly.
Derock Xie
Developer based in
mostly cloudy 
North Carolina, USA.
Hi, I'm Derock, a sophomore at Duke studying Electrical Computer Engineering & CS. I specialize in embedded engineering, fullstack web development, and software development. I'm also an avid open-source contributor, with over 80 public projects on GitHub, and I take pride in building systems that emphasize performance, security, design, and reproducibility.
Skills 🛠️
tech
- React (and ecosystem)
- Astro
- Tailwind CSS
- Node JS
- Docker
- Nix & NixOS
- embassy-rs
- esp-idf
languages
- C & C++
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- Bash
- SQL
tools
- Git & GitHub
- Docker
- KiCad
- Neovim & VS Code
- Autodesk Fusion 360
- OnShape
- Figma
Projects 🏗️
PoroScout
PoroScout is a League of Legends companion bot that provides real-time game data, including live match stats, player profiles, champion statistics, and more. It is comprised of multiple microservices bundled into one monorepo, deployed using the Docker Swarm orchestrator.
5,100 Servers
939,526 Users
discord-html-transcripts
An open-source package for developers looking to create Discord-style chat transcripts, allowing for a quick and easy way to archive and review conversations with a visually appealing format. It is built using StencilJS and React SSR.
299 stars
10,858
downloads/week
DIY Weather Station
Low power, low cost ESP32-based weather station. Connects to an MQTT broker over NB-IoT cellular network for remote environments. Utilizes the ESP32-S3's Ultra low power co-processor and deep sleep states to maximize battery life. Collects temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, UV index, light level, and PM2.5 levels.
Publications 📚
CVSS-based Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for High Performance Computing Networks
J. K. Debnath and D. Xie, "CVSS-based Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for High Performance Computing Networks," The 16th IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SysCon53536.2022.9773931.
A Network-based Distributed Data Storage System for Data Security in a Hostile Network
J. Chu and D. Xie, "A Network-based Distributed Data Storage System for Data Security in a Hostile Network," 2022 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Palapye, Botswana, 2022, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SmartNets55823.2022.9994017.
Encblock: Enclave and Blockchain-enabled Secure Data Sharing and Computing for Power Grids
D. Xie, A. Kumar, “Encblock: Enclave and Blockchain-enabled Secure Data Sharing and Computing for Power Grids,” Submitted to the 17th IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2023.
Job Experience 👷
Freelance Developer
Present
I'm currently working as a freelance developer doing random projects for people. If you are interested in commissioning me, reach out to me via email at derock@derock.dev.
InfoBeyond Technology LLC
Intern - 05/15/2022 - 08/15/2022
Built, racked, and setup a multi-GPU 2U server for image processing. I then worked on adapting and traning different GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) and YOLO (You only look once) models for enhanced object detection.
MCStorage.cloud
Co-Founder - 01/07/2022 - 04/25/2022
Created a Game server backup BaaS (Backup as a Service) with a friend. I built out and created most of the backend infrastructure and worked on the dashboard frontend too.
Recent Blog Posts 📝
PCB Business Card
Business card that acts as a spectrum analyzer and BLE sniffer with built-in NFC.
9/21/2026
DEF CON 34
Attending my first DEF CON; hacking badges, cool talks, and vegas
8/12/2026
Custom Long Range Live Video Solution
The live video solution for Duke AERO's 2026 rocket: Devils Advocate. Running on 3.4GHz using RaptorQ and Reed-Solomon
8/6/2026
314 contributions in the last year