Kristy Gao
CTO, Co-founder at Cenote
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristy Gao is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Cenote, bringing a decade of hands-on software experience across startups and large tech companies in the Bay Area. She has built backend services, cloud infrastructure, and product-facing systems during roles at Watershed, Cockroach Labs, and Google, and she blends startup speed with production-grade reliability. Her background includes computer vision and SRE internships, evidence of a willingness to tackle both low-level reliability and applied ML problems. Kristy’s early product work and client-facing feature delivery show she balances technical depth with customer impact, and her quirky GitHub bio—“really good at flipping omelettes”—hints at a calm, practical problem-solver who performs under pressure. Trained at the University of Waterloo, she pairs strong CS fundamentals with a track record of shipping features and leading engineering direction in climate and infrastructure-focused products.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (44)
cockroachdb10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
kubernetes9
distributed-systems9
translate9
go9
cloud-native9
distributed-database9
npm8
testing7
nodejs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uwblueprint/planet-read
May 2021 - Apr 2022
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Contributions:2 releases, 848 reviews, 175 commits in 10 months
reactvolunteersreviewtranslatenextjs
gaoxk/Chemistry-MC-Project
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 6 months
multiple-choicemigration
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