Joey Cao
Engineering at Harvey
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoey Cao is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and product features, most recently focused on AI-enabled APIs and edge caching for advertising platforms. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MS alumnus, he spent a decade at Google progressing from Software Engineer II to Tech Lead Manager / Staff Engineer, shaping GraphQL-like API engines, RPC frameworks, and LLM data-query infra for Ads. Now based in Mountain View and currently at Harvey, he blends hands-on systems design with people leadership to deliver shared infra used across high-throughput products. His academic work on declarative learning-language tooling and real-time compilation hints at a rare combination of research fluency and production-grade engineering. Joey’s background in streaming pipelines, rule engines, and cache strategies shows he thrives at the intersection of data, performance, and developer-facing APIs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex distributed problems into reliable, testable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Computer Science, Exchange Program, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at Cushing Academy
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
webservice9
machine-learning7
declarative6
restful-api6
druid5
big-data-analytics5
restful5
time-series4
databases4
big-data4
analytics4
sql4
data-analytics4
macros3
java2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
onlinecco/DH2641-planner
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
onlinecco/saul-1
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
declarativemachine-learning
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