Jack Gao
Engineering Manager at Skydio
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Gao is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and scalable pipelines from startups to high-growth enterprises. He has led teams and core cloud efforts—most recently at Skydio—and previously architected real-time search, price-generation, and a 4 billion-offering OpenSearch indexing platform at Flexport. His background spans deep learning infrastructure for medical text, large-scale data lakes and automated repair tooling at Twitch, and founding a startup focused on cloud analytics for scientific instruments. Jack combines hands-on engineering with product-minded API design and operational rigor (k8s, Kafka, TPU tuning), and he’s comfortable driving both technical strategy and execution across distributed systems. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a Waterloo CS degree with business training and a track record of turning messy, high-volume data into reliable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
machine-learning8
parallel-processing8
machine-translation8
reinforcement-learning8
coordinates8
deep-learning7
driver5
tpu5
docker4
ruby4
python3
database3
vertica3
communication-protocol2
sequence-to-sequence2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twitchscience/rs_ingester
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
Ingests Spade processor output into Redshift
Contributions:58 commits, 64 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
coordinatesimportingrubyredshift
twitchscience/spade_edge
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Write-only event API server for the Spade pipeline
Contributions:32 commits, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
edge-serverdockeredge
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