Julia Gao
Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard
Sandy, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulia Gao is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across fintech, edtech, and enterprise SaaS, currently driving technical initiatives at Mastercard. She has a strong full-stack and cloud-native background—historically shipping projects using F#, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling—and has progressed from hands-on development roles to technical leadership positions. Julia’s career includes senior engineering and technical lead roles at Zip Co and Pluralsight, where she delivered admin-facing products and production-grade infrastructure. Based in Sandy, Utah, she pairs a B.S. in Computer Science with a B.A. in Sociology, enabling her to bridge technical design with user- and team-centered considerations. A pragmatic problem-solver, she often focuses on reliable delivery and developer experience improvements behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English
Github Skills (102)
http-client10
javascript10
pluralsight10
ajax10
nodejs10
browser9
xmlhttprequest9
asp-net-mvc9
react9
frontend9
angularjs9
datepicker8
purescript8
datetimepicker8
heroku-cli8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryoia/functional-frontend-slides
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
octanner/dockerfile-wizard
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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