Kai Cao
Software Engineer at mnemonic
Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKai Cao is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building large-scale, fault-tolerant systems for security monitoring, gaming, streaming and finance. He has deep hands-on experience designing and operating big data pipelines and storage (Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch) that handle multi-DC, multi-tenant workloads and trillions of events per year. At mnemonic he led the Argus distributed system, recruiting and mentoring engineers while delivering real-time detection pipelines that ingest diverse sensor formats worldwide. His background spans server/cloud development, BI/DBA work, SSO/API integrations and product-facing portals, giving him a rare blend of backend scalability and pragmatic product awareness. Recently he’s been exploring deep learning and reinforcement learning in practice, combining classical systems engineering with ML curiosity. Based in Norway, he brings a continuous-learning mindset — “empty cup” — and a track record of shipping resilient, production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Other; The Credential of Readiness, Pass with Honors, Other; The Credential of Readiness, Pass with Honors at Harvard Business School OnlineMaster, Service Design and Engineering, Master, Service Design and Engineering at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanBachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Vaasan Ammattikorkeakoulu - University of Applied SciencesPassed Level I of the CFA ProgramWuhan No.11 High School Wuhan Tongji Junior School, Wuhan Tongji Primary School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (29)
esper10
python10
java10
scala10
sql10
apache9
complex-event-processing9
datastax9
big-data9
rest9
specification9
api-specification9
rest-api9
streaming8
openapi8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaicao/esper
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Esper Complex Event Processing and Event Series Analysis
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
event-series-analysisesperevent-processingcomplex-event-processing
kaicao/Garden
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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