Jeffrey Kao
Principal Engineer at Radar
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Kao is a Principal Engineer in New York with 14 years of experience building data-rich, full‑stack systems across startups and scaleups. He co-founded a profitable indie software company that was acquihired by Radar and has since progressed through engineering and leadership roles there, now shaping architecture and delivery as Principal Engineer. His background spans data platform design at SoundCloud, large-scale analytics and geolocation work at Foursquare, and pragmatic product engineering from cloud apps to IoT. Jeffrey blends hands-on implementation (servers, frontends, batch processing, and PB-scale data pipelines) with product-minded technical strategy and cross-team collaboration. Outside engineering he pursues design, music, and languages—an inclination that often surfaces in thoughtful UX and documentation decisions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University SingaporeBASc Honours Computer Engineering (Co-op), BASc Honours Computer Engineering (Co-op) at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (87)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
fuzzy-search10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
location10
sdk10
geocoding10
elt10
geolocation10
data-integration10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jkao/jkao.github.io
Dec 2011 - Sep 2022
Contributions:173 commits, 74 pushes in 10 years 10 months
jekyll
jkao/Readlett-v2
Feb 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 2 months
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