Factor House
Derek Troy-West has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Derek is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Factor House, a position they have held since 2019. Prior to that, they were the Founder and CEO of Troy-West, where they specialized in delivering highly available and scalable streaming-compute platforms for leading clients in Australia and New Zealand. Derek also worked as a Consultant at UBS Investment Bank, e2x Limited, Fortis Bank, Fidelity Investments, and Practiv, where they held various roles ranging from Consultant to Senior Developer and Technical Project Manager. Derek began their career as a Developer at Telecom New Zealand.
Derek Troy-West earned a BSc. degree in Computer Science from The University of Auckland, where they studied from 1997 to 2000.
Factor House
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We are an independent, engineering-led software house from Melbourne, Australia. We build essential tools for modern engineers. At Factor House, we believe insight has the power to shape the future. Over 20+ years of experience fuels our engineers with the insight to design specialized products for developers, empowering them to imagine and create new solutions. Kpow for Apache Kafka is our flagship product and is used by thousands of expert engineers globally. Start a free trial today at kpow.io.