Bao Ngo
Chief Technology Officer at Stealth FinTech Startup
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolBao Ngo is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with 13 years of software engineering experience and a prior 15-year career in design, specializing in fintech and healthtech startups from seed to Series C. He combines full-stack development (React, TypeScript, GraphQL) with DevOps and security ownership across AWS and Azure, having led PCI DSS certification, Kubernetes/EKS deployments, and incident response processes. Bao has driven product launches that generated meaningful transaction volume and operational improvements—reducing errors by 85% through CI/CD, stricter code reviews, and Sentry-driven triage. Comfortable translating product requirements into technical tradeoffs, he has integrated complex services like Marqeta, Yodlee, Auth0, and KYC providers while also contributing to open-source mental health tooling on GitHub. Known for grooming engineering culture and solving systemic workplace problems, he blends creative design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering to ship reliable, user-focused systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts, Arts & Letters Emphasis, Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts, Arts & Letters Emphasis at De Anza CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
sc10
webpack10
scs10
webpacker10
react10
label9
css-modules9
ruby-on-rails8
rails8
ruby8
storybook7
jestjs7
html6
iframe6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 56 PRs, 26 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bao contributed to the development of the "ifme" web application by implementing new features and improving existing ones. Their work included adding CSS Modules for styling and creating React components, specifically a logo component. They also updated the webpack configuration to incorporate generated CSS and tree shaking for optimization and added enzyme tests.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
baohouse/ifme
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
Open source app to share mental health experiences with loved ones
Contributions:194 pushes, 49 branches in 11 months
mental-healthreactmentalhealthexperiences
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