Andrew Gao
Human Software Engineer at Cognition
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gao is a versatile software engineer and AI researcher with eight years of experience bridging machine learning, biotech, and startup product work from Palo Alto. Currently at Cognition and studying CS + AI at Stanford, he has built finetuning infrastructure for LLMs at LangChain and shipped generative-AI MVPs for grant applications in industry settings. His background includes ML-driven QSAR modeling with three first-author peer-reviewed publications and hands-on computational drug discovery, reflecting a rare blend of domain expertise in molecular modeling and production ML. He’s also active in early-stage venture and research communities as a Venture Partner at Contrary and an editor for the Stanford Undergraduate Law Review. Notably, he was an Atlas Fellow and a Rise Global Winner, experiences that signal selective fellowships and leadership in high-impact technical programs. He combines startup speed with academic rigor, often translating complex research into usable tools for scientists and product teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Canyon Crest AcademyBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Stanford University
Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (44)
javascript10
puppeteer10
react10
selenium9
nextjs9
database9
playwright8
data-pipeline8
authentication8
ai8
sql8
databases8
stream8
security8
encrypt8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
andrewgcodes/andrewgcodes
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
andrewgcodes/geneRanker
Feb 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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