Billy Cao
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBilly Cao is a software engineer and founder based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building production systems and ML-driven products. As Co-Founder of Synthetic Lab he’s focused on making it easy to run diverse models, drawing on hands-on platform and SRE experience from Google and lead engineering at Theseus AI. His background spans large-scale ad infrastructure, reliability engineering, and medical-imaging diagnostics, reflecting comfort across backend systems, tooling, and applied machine learning. Billy moved from being a Google tech lead to entrepreneurial roles and occasional “funemployed” deep dives, showing a pattern of shipping practical prototypes quickly. He combines an electrical/computer engineering foundation from UCLA with product-minded engineering, and still prefers learning new technologies by building them rather than just reading about them. An ex-Googler in SF/LA, he brings both startup grit and service-oriented engineering discipline to early-stage AI infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (55)
agentic10
authentication10
pair-programming10
ai10
saml9
chatgpt9
security9
oidc-client9
vscode-extension9
proxy9
oauth2-client9
authorization9
command-line9
oauth2-server9
sonnet9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
billycao/venmo-to-lunch-money
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
synthetic-lab/vllm
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 months
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