Summary
Jichao Sun is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems across companies from Google and Waymo to Definite and now OpenAI. He combines strong systems fundamentals—data structures, Linux, TCP/IP, distributed systems, storage and virtualization—with hands-on fluency in Java, Python, C/C++ and Go. At Waymo he led simulation infrastructure work and at Google he built highly scalable Display Ads features, demonstrating an ability to deliver reliable production services for both research-heavy and ad-tech environments. He is comfortable designing microservices, databases and native cloud applications, and has practical experience with Docker, SSL/HTTP and high-performance storage. A CMU-trained engineer who also studied statistics and economics, he brings analytical rigor to system design and tradeoffs. Colleagues describe him as the engineer who bridges low-level performance tuning and high-level distributed architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Additional: Statistics Minor: Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Additional: Statistics Minor: Economics at Carnegie Mellon University
Conestoga High School