Summary
Mingze Gao is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building cloud infrastructure for autonomous vehicles at Uber from San Jose. He holds an M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell and specializes in event-driven architectures, Kubernetes-based deployment pipelines, and microservices built with Java/Spring Boot and .NET. Mingze has a track record of improving system reliability and performance—introducing message filtering for RabbitMQ, building CD pipelines with Spinnaker/Octopus for AKS/EKS, and reducing deployment downtime and latency significantly. He’s also led full-stack projects for education and healthcare, combining React frontends, Java backends, MongoDB/Redis optimizations, and deterministic algorithms for clinical matching. Beyond production systems, he runs operational engineering initiatives that boosted team efficiency through automation and intelligent workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs academic rigor with hands-on delivery in high-stakes, distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Arnold O. Beckman High School
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Cornell University
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Cornell Tech
University of California, Irvine