Fred Gao
Software Engineering Intern at VGen
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Gao is a software engineer and University of Waterloo CS student with eight years of hands-on experience across full-stack development and vulnerability research. He has shipped production features for PlayStation 5 UI using React Native and TypeScript, built backend benchmarking tools in C# for Bentley’s search platform, and authored exploit proofs-of-concept while hardening detection at Trend Micro. Comfortable working solo or coordinating international teams, he moves quickly from reverse engineering and security analysis to UI component libraries and cross-platform mobile apps. Based in Waterloo, he blends practical engineering with strong theoretical grounding in cybersecurity and systems, and has a track record of turning deep technical investigation into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Abbey Park High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (22)
eagle8
ccc7
slash-commands6
minecraft6
discord6
server5
discord-bot5
bukkit5
python5
spigot5
java4
api4
http-server4
bot-framework3
coders3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lunarcoffee/osurate
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Performant cross-platform osu! beatmap rate generator.
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
beatmapsrhythm-gameguieagleosu
lunarcoffee/lucent
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Lightweight web server with an implementation of HTTP/1.1.
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 6 months
http-serverweb-serverserver
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