Jeffrey Chao
Strategy Operations & Special Projects, Advanced Energy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Chao is a strategy and operations leader with 13 years of experience bridging engineering, energy, and product teams to deliver large-scale technical and commercial outcomes. Currently leading StratOps and special projects for Google's Advanced Energy team, he focuses on scalable hardware, software, and AI solutions to decarbonize and power global data center fleets. His background spans McKinsey strategy work in power and industrials, early engineering at Chevron, and hands-on product and backend contributions at Netflix, Stripe, Heroku, and Google Cloud—combining consultancy rigor with developer instincts. As a former startup co-founder and CTO and a contributor to Netflix’s Mantis platform, he brings practical DevOps and systems-level expertise to energy transitions. An MIT Sloan MBA and UC Berkeley mechanical engineer, he’s equally fluent in commercial partnerships and technical architecture. Notably, he has led first-of-a-kind project development for green hydrogen, marrying project delivery with novel electrolyzer technology.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at MIT Sloan School of Management
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Netflix/mantis
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
A platform that makes it easy for developers to build realtime, cost-effective, operations-focused applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 19 reviews, 215 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey contributed to the `netflix/mantis` project by fixing build and publishing processes. They updated Dockerfiles and build scripts for the Mantis Agent, preparing it for Docker Hub. Further contributions involved refactoring core components related to providers, discovery, drainers, and transmitters, improving the application's architecture and dependency management. The user also added validation logic for worker ports and improved the overall reliability and maintainability of the Mantis platform.
realtimeeffectivefor-developersfocusedcost-effective
Netflix/mantis-connectors
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Collection of Sources and Sinks for Mantis Jobs
Contributions:11 releases, 81 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 3 months
mantissinksjobssources
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