Le Gao
Engineering Manager, Staff Software Engineer at Google
Beijing, United States
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Top SchoolLe Gao is an engineering manager and staff software engineer based in Beijing with nine years of experience leading teams at Google and earlier senior roles at Salesforce and Microsoft. He blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution, balancing short-term delivery and long-term system improvements while driving efficiency and process betterment. A former CTO and co-founder, he pairs product-minded leadership with deep technical chops across platforms—from telemetry and workflow orchestration to knowledge systems and large-scale customer-facing products. He contributes to open-source projects like Dify, focusing on front-end UX fixes, i18n and media features, reflecting a practical approach to shipping polished interfaces. Trained to a PhD level in computer science, he brings rigorous research instincts to pragmatic engineering and team coaching.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
nextjs10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
javascript9
css9
html8
i18n-js6
ember-i18n6
rails-i18n6
workflow-engine5
agent4
llm3
ai3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
langgenius/dify
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Dify's intuitive interface combines AI workflow, RAG pipeline, agent capabilities, model management, observability features and more, letting you quickly go from prototype to production.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Le primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Dify platform. Their work involved fixing UI issues, such as adjusting z-index values and preventing text overflow in components. The user also refactored the layout and addressed a layout shift on app card hover. Moreover, they implemented features like an audio button with play/pause functionality and integrated i18n translations for internationalization.
agentaianthropicbackend-as-a-servicechatbot
yikayiyo/yikayiyo_py
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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