Allison Cao
Software Engineer at Amazon
Town of Yorktown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Cao is a software engineer based in Yorktown, NY, combining eight years of hands-on experience with formal training in Information Systems and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon. Currently at Amazon after a prior SWE internship there, she brings practical cloud and DevOps expertise honed by building containerized auto-graders and CI/CD workflows for CMU’s TEEL Lab. Her background blends data-driven research—producing a novel estimation method for drug seizure weights and shipping an R Shiny app used by a medical examiner—with peer tutoring in mathematics and programming, reflecting strong communication and pedagogy skills. Comfortable moving between research, tooling, and production code, she has a track record of turning analytical problems into usable software and thrives on bridging classroom concepts to real-world engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
reader7
altair6
visualization5
data-visualization4
bokeh2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
allisonyanc/IP_viz
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 35 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
allisonyanc/Viz-Group-Project
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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