Albert Gao
Senior Software Engineer at Citi
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlbert Gao is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable front-end and back-end systems across finance, enterprise and consumer products. He combines deep expertise in TypeScript, React and modern front-end architecture with production experience in Go and Python to build testable, layered services and in-house UI primitives that accelerate developer velocity. At Citi he led architecture and demoed a complex documentation analysis service leveraging OpenAI and LangChain, illustrating a practical blend of frontend, backend and prompt-engineering skills. His career includes leading migrations and performance POCs (notably shrinking Next.js page load times) and driving strong typing and automation pipelines across teams. Known for pragmatic re-architecting—reducing code and improving testability—he pairs technical leadership with a knack for delivering board-level demos and stakeholder-aligned solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma, Computer Science, Graduate Diploma, Computer Science at University of OtagoMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at The University of AucklandGraduate Diploma, Management Information Systems, General, Graduate Diploma, Management Information Systems, General at Nanjing University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
amazon-cognito10
ui-components10
testing10
react-spring10
npm-package10
swagger10
visual-studio10
isolation10
openapi10
couchdb10
graphql-api10
middleware10
heroicons10
browser10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Albert-Gao/micro-aws-lambda
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
A 7KB and 0 dependencies AWS Lambda library which supports middleware and easy debug.
Contributions:25 releases, 56 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
dependenciesserverlessaws-lambdadebugaws
Albert-Gao/react-fullstack-boilerplate
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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