Michael Bao
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SeniorMichael Bao is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Netflix with 11 years of engineering experience and a Stanford Ph.D. in Computer Science, blending deep research expertise with production-grade systems engineering. He has shipped engine-level and gameplay physics at scale for Fortnite and Unreal Engine, led a startup that processed petabytes of gaming video with a custom C++/Rust stack, and contributed to Oscar-class facial capture R&D at Industrial Light & Magic. Comfortable across C++, Rust, Python, distributed AWS backends, and real-time media pipelines, he focuses on turning advanced vision and generative AI research into robust, performant products. Notably, he has a track record of bridging academia and industry—managing R&D collaborations with Stanford while raising venture backing and delivering consumer-facing systems. Based in Redwood City, he combines hands-on implementation with system architecture and product sensibility in entertainment and gaming domains.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
world-of-warcraft4
html1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
b3h47pte/lollive
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:180 commits in 1 year 1 month
SquadOV/SquadOVNext
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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