Summary
Adam Chao is a Senior Principal Software Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building front-end systems and leading software/system integration for aerospace programs at Northrop Grumman. He blends hands-on Python, React, Qt, and JavaScript development with system architecture, networking, and payload integration, often driving rapid risk-reduction and technology maturation efforts. Comfortable across embedded C++ and Java backends as well as modern web UIs, he owns full software/system characterization and test on flight-relevant hardware. Adam pairs a UC Riverside computer science degree with ongoing systems-engineering graduate work, reflecting a strong systems mindset beyond pure coding. Notably, his career began as a series of internships where he repeatedly moved prototype features into production, showing a long habit of translating prototypes into operational capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of California, Riverside