Summary
Junkai Gao is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native and enterprise systems, currently contributing to Azure Service Fabric at Microsoft. He has a strong backend focus with Java, Spring, Kafka and SQL expertise from roles at BlackRock and State Street, complemented by front-end experience in Angular/React and legacy web stacks. Junkai pairs a solid academic foundation—a Master's in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh—with practical production work across financial and cloud domains. He has a track record of delivering scalable, resilient services and integrating distributed caching and messaging solutions like Apache Ignite and Kafka. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges legacy modernization and modern cloud patterns. Based in New Jersey, he brings both system-level thinking and hands-on implementation to complex enterprise challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Geographic Information System, 3.5, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Geographic Information System, 3.5 at Sun Yat-Sen University
Master's degree, Information Science, 3.8, Master's degree, Information Science, 3.8 at University of Pittsburgh
Chinese, English, Chinese, Japanese