Summary
Johnny Pao is a Software Engineer II based in San Jose with seven years of experience building scalable backend and product-facing systems across companies like Uber, Retool, Discord, and Ancestry. He has shipped mobile and agentic AI features at Retool, scaled creator revenue products and an OTP shop at Discord, and contributed to notifications infrastructure at Ancestry—demonstrating strength across backend services and product integrations. Comfortable bridging AI tooling and traditional engineering, he acts as a practical middleman between language models and codebases while keeping a taste for efficient, caffeine-free fuel: carbonated water. A BYU-trained information systems engineer with a computer science minor, he pairs pragmatic system design with curiosity about developer-facing and AI-enabled workflows.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Chinese