Cliff Lau
Staff Software Engineer at GEICO Tech
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCliff Lau is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of full-stack experience spanning frontend, backend, and data engineering. He has driven large-scale metadata and data governance initiatives at Uber—designing systems that automated PII categorization and managed ownership across 400k Hive datasets—and now leads engineering efforts at GEICO Tech. Cliff blends React and TypeScript frontends with Go backends and scalable ETL pipelines in Python/Scala, having built product-critical systems for e-commerce analytics and internal data catalogs. He’s comfortable moving between shipping customer-facing apps and architecting data platforms for compliance and cost optimization, and has a track record of turning complex regulatory and business requirements into automated, production-safe tooling. Notably, he has repeatedly taken ownership of mission-critical products that scaled from single teams to enterprise-wide impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (16)
synthetic10
synthetic-biology10
biology9
react-component8
react7
component-library6
react-components5
react-component-library4
blast4
bioinformatics4
sequence4
sequencing4
language-design3
manipulation3
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Synbiota/GENtle2
May 2014 - Dec 2015
GENtle2 - Web-Based DNA Editor for Synthetic Biology
Contributions:188 commits, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dnaweb-basedbiologysyntheticsynthetic-biology
laucliff/baseweb
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
A React Component library implementing the Base design language
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
react-componentreactlanguage-designreact-component-librarydesign-system
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