Alan Tao
Software Engineer at Chalk
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Tao is a software engineer and Georgia Tech CS undergrad with ~8 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and AI-driven systems, currently at Chalk in San Francisco. He has moved quickly from internships in full-stack and engineering roles to developing reinforcement-learning environments, AI agents, and data pipelines at Handshake, and now ships production software for transportation management and related systems. An award-winning teaching assistant and research contributor (IWOMP 2024) with strengths in machine learning, distributed/dataflow tooling, and visualization, he also recreates AI algorithms from scratch and studies computer chess—demonstrating both practical product focus and deep algorithmic curiosity. Alan pairs rigorous academic training in CS and mathematics with a knack for turning research prototypes into production features across web, ML, and systems stacks.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
tetris10
puzzle10
folding10
dog9
gameplay7
self-contained6
unity3d5
java5
player5
game-development4
handbrake3
javascript2
spring2
orb2
collaboration1
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alanrtao/alanrtao.github.io
May 2018 - Aug 2022
my homepage!
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
my-homepage
alanrtao/Slider
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
A 2D Puzzle-Exploration game based on 8 puzzle
Contributions:2 PRs, 193 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 11 months
puzzle8-puzzlegame
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