Bruce Lai
Principal Software Engineer at Mission Lane
San Marino, California, United States
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Top SchoolBruce Lai is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience building high-impact full-stack applications, currently focused on React-driven civic tech projects like the Civic Tech Index. He combines deep front-end expertise (React, Angular, TypeScript) with back-end skills in Node.js and Python, and a history of delivering mission-critical systems at NASA JPL and Panasonic Avionics. At Panasonic he rebuilt and optimized embedded avionics software to dramatically improve performance and lower maintenance costs, and at JPL he led a time-sensitive Python 2→3 migration supporting satellite communications. A hands-on mentor and tech lead, he’s experienced in guiding teams on best practices for testing and scalable UI design with Material UI. Based in San Marino, CA, Bruce pairs an engineering mindset with a civic-minded focus on projects that make measurable societal impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Biomedical Engineering, MS Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Duke UniversityCertification (completion 2020), Certification (completion 2020) at Springboard Machine Learning Engineering Career Track
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
civictechindex/CTI-website-frontend
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Join a worldwide movement to catalog
every open source
civic tech project.
Contributions:192 reviews, 404 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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bruceplai/ml-capstone
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:59 pushes in 5 months
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