Meng Cao is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building high-performance trading and financial systems, currently leading teams at Amazon after five years of engineering leadership at Bloomberg. He combines a strong research background (PhD in Physics) with hands-on software craftsmanship, favoring Test Driven Development and agile practices to deliver reliable, low-latency applications for market participants. Comfortable across proprietary and open-source stacks, he has practical back-end experience contributing to academic projects like Expertiza, where he focused on refactoring and unit testing core application logic. Known for translating complex numerical and domain-specific requirements into maintainable software, he mentors teams to balance speed with correctness in production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer, Master of Science (MS) Computer at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Nanjing University
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:100 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Meng primarily focused on refactoring and unit testing the Expertiza application, a web application for peer assessment. Their contributions involved renaming functions in the course model and adding unit tests for the course model. They also worked on fixing errors in the assignment controller and CourseParticipant test, indicating a focus on core application logic and functionality.
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