Dennis Gao
Software Engineering Manager at Meituan
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Summary
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SeniorDennis Gao is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building large-scale, distributed services and leading high-performance teams across China’s top tech companies. Currently at Meituan, he blends hands-on architecture and systems design with strategic collaboration with executive leadership to prioritize cutting-edge, business-critical systems. His career includes senior technical and leadership roles at Momenta, Cainiao, and other firms, where he turned complex requirements into layered, maintainable solutions. Dennis is known for breaking problems into simple, interacting building blocks and for coaching engineers to deliver robust systems at product speed. He brings a strong bias for foresight and creative team development, keeping teams challenged, excited, and focused on long-term career growth. An engineering evangelist at heart, he balances technical rigor with people-first leadership to scale both systems and teams.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (127)
websocket10
simplify10
cowboy10
snap10
dotnet10
surveillance10
microk8s10
csharp10
intelligent10
docker10
c-library10
rancher9
k8s9
spring9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gaochundong/Cowboy.WebSockets
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
gaochundong/WhenEntityFrameworkMeetUnity
Jun 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 7 months
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