Alan Gao is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems in the Bay Area, currently contributing to Stripe after a multi-year stint on Instagram. He has a strong foundation from Cornell (CS) and a track record across consumer-scale products and financial infrastructure, with earlier internships at Facebook and The Blackstone Group where he optimized production tooling and performance. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has hands-on experience shipping features, improving SQL and service performance, and teaching data structures and parsing to undergraduates. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who pairs product-focused execution with a willingness to dig into algorithms and low-level optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Cornell University
Contributions:13 releases, 12 reviews, 1620 commits in 4 years 2 months
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