Summary
Candice Lai is a software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across product and infrastructure roles. She currently engineers at GoPro after impactful software work at Arcules, bringing practical expertise in camera and video-related platforms informed by a background in audio engineering. Trained at Hack Reactor and UC Irvine, she blends formal CS rigor with analog-digital audio sensibilities, making her especially effective on multimedia and real-time features. Her earlier career as an audio and recording engineer, instructor, and systems administrator gives her a rare combination of user-facing empathy, teaching ability, and ops-minded problem solving. Candice maintains a public portfolio at candicetlai.com that highlights projects tying together software, audio, and creative systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering at Musicians Institute
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Irvine