Grace Gao
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrace Gao is a software engineer based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience and a formal Software Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo with a Combinatorics & Optimization minor. She has built a track record of impactful internships at major tech firms—Bloomberg, Datadog, and Faire—before joining Figma as an intern and later returning as a full-time engineer. Grace blends strong engineering fundamentals with product-focused front-end and systems work, gained across both coasts and international study in Madrid. Comfortable shipping at scale in fast-paced teams, she brings a methodical, optimization-minded approach to design and performance problems. Outside of work she maintains an online portfolio (gracewgao.me), signaling a habit of documenting projects and an eye for craft beyond code.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)IB Diploma Program French Immersion, IB Diploma Program French Immersion at Colonel By Secondary SchoolBachelor of Software Engineering; Combinatorics and Optimization Minor, Bachelor of Software Engineering; Combinatorics and Optimization Minor at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (73)
python10
api-client10
security10
rest-api10
program-analysis10
static-analysis10
type-check10
httpie10
abstract-interpretation10
api10
json10
debugging10
ocaml10
source-code-analysis10
type-checking10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SET-Hacks-Dev/set-hacks
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
SET.Hacks() 2021 website.
Contributions:16 reviews, 68 commits, 32 PRs in 1 month
css
gracewgao/gracewgao
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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