Eric Kao
AI Engineer at HomeLight
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Kao is an AI engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building production-grade backend systems, full-stack products, and AI-powered automation for consumer and Web3 platforms. He has repeatedly shipped customer-facing features at scale—from internal scheduling systems for 1,000+ employees to NFT minting platforms that generated rapid revenue—while transitioning into AI-focused engineering at HomeLight. Comfortable across Next.js, backend infrastructure, A/B experimentation, and UI libraries, he bridges product, design, and data to streamline multi-step workflows like home financing and governance tooling. Eric’s background includes founding roles in Web3 and hands-on redesigns of marketplace and profile experiences, showing a mix of entrepreneurial drive and product craftsmanship. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product needs into robust, testable systems and to operationalize experiments that improve conversion and UX. He combines a practical growth-stage engineering mindset with a knack for making complex distributed features feel simple to end users.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, DavisLynbrook High SchoolNational Experimental High School, Taiwan
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
candy-machine10
piracy10
candy10
nodejs10
react10
math9
codebase9
nft9
music9
brian8
certification8
anchor6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ericskao/twittler
Jun 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
ericskao/kao-dev
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
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