Dennis Kao
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Kao is a software engineer with nine years of experience building consumer mobile apps, ML pipelines, and bioinformatics tooling across startups and large tech teams. Currently at Meta, he contributes to the first generation of smart glasses focusing on media creation and ML infrastructure, and previously built high-scale banking UI libraries, Tesla Sentry Mode tooling, and cloud-backed mobile platforms. He blends mobile-first Swift expertise with backend Python, data science tools (pandas, sklearn), and cloud services (GCP, Firebase) to deliver end-to-end products. His bioinformatics work produced multi-threaded RNAseq pipelines used by researchers at Harvard and UCLA and contributed to a published paper, reflecting a knack for translating domain science into production code. Based in Seattle, he pairs a lifelong tinkerer mentality—once editing game packets and selling PCs—with disciplined engineering practices like high-performance computing and reproducible pipelines. Outside work he trains in karate and listens to hip hop, a mix that keeps his problem-solving both focused and creative.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of GuelphBayview Secondary School
English, teochow
Github Skills (7)
kana10
in-progress9
android7
windows7
text-editor6
sdl6
editor4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Detea/PekaED
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:155 commits, 6 PRs, 125 pushes in 2 years 4 months
in-progresslevel-2level-editortext-editoreditor
Detea/PekaSE2
May 2023 - Jun 2024
A modern Pekka Kana 2 sprite editor with lots of nice features
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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