Brian Cao
Co-Founder at umami
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Cao is a seasoned full-stack engineer and co-founder with 8 years of professional experience building performant, production-grade web applications and developer tooling from Sacramento, CA. He has led end-to-end systems at enterprise scale—designing component libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and medical claims workflows—while consistently optimizing SQL Server performance and refactoring legacy systems for maintainability. As a back-end contributor to the popular privacy-focused analytics project Umami, he has hands-on expertise in query optimization and code quality that complements his front-end work in Vue, Angular, and React. Comfortable working across product, design, and stakeholder teams, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a background in management and a knack for turning complex domain requirements into testable, documented solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, management, Bachelor of Science - BS, management at Sacramento State College of Business Administration
Github Skills (6)
query-optimization10
sql10
back-end-development10
database-design10
database-optimization10
javascript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umami-software/umami
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 225 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on optimizing database queries within the codebase. Their contributions included modifying and optimizing existing SQL queries, suggesting a strong understanding of database performance. Additionally, the user was involved in refactoring code, indicating attention to code quality and maintainability. The user was also responsible for fixing comments in the source code, demonstrating a commitment to code readability and documentation.
chartsanalyticsstatisticsprivacyprivacy-focused
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