Summary
Rod Lai is a seasoned software engineer based in New York City with 11 years of experience delivering scalable, well-designed backend and web systems. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Squarespace, where he builds scalable architectures and champions technical leadership and mentorship since 2023. His career spans FactSet, Bloomberg, Rent the Runway, and ChartHop, showing a track record of adapting to finance, ecommerce, and analytics platforms and delivering reliable infrastructure. He earned a BS and MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, grounding his work in solid academic training. Beyond code, he thrives on learning new technologies and solving architecture challenges from the ground up, seeking environments with strong technical leadership and growth opportunities.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Mandarin, Chinese