Frank Gao
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Gao is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput backend systems, currently working on Snapchat’s messaging and MyAI backend services in Seattle. He has a strong Azure cloud pedigree from Microsoft, where he optimized large data pipelines, reduced latency from hours to minutes, and implemented resilient alerting for expiring certificates that cut duplicate and bad requests dramatically. Frank’s contributions to the popular Azure CLI extensions for AKS reveal hands-on expertise with Kubernetes features like spot node pools and node image upgrades, plus practical performance refactors. He combines deep systems optimization skills with pragmatic engineering processes—introducing tooling and git-backed reviews to close security and operational gaps—making him adept at improving reliability and developer velocity in large-scale distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Iowa State University - College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
python10
k8s10
kubernetes-pods10
azure-cli10
apidoc9
api9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the Azure CLI extensions for AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) preview features. Their work included implementing support for new features such as Spot pools, node image upgrades, and setting up the zero node agent pool. They also addressed bugs, refactored code for improved performance, and updated the API versions used by the extension. The contributions were focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the AKS CLI, directly impacting the usability and features available to users.
azure-cli-extensionpublic-repositoryextensionsazureazure-cli
gtxistxgao/Appointment-Opening-Checker
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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