Summary
Mingzi Cao is a Staff Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable e-commerce and big data platforms at The Home Depot and Equifax, specializing in search, ads placement, and store checkout systems. He combines strong Java and functional-programming skills (Scala, Spark) with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Cassandra, HDFS and Google Cloud services to deliver high-performance, production-grade pipelines. Comfortable across the full stack, he authors enterprise SpringBoot services, designs data ingestion/ETL for diverse formats, and has migrated systems to cloud-native environments. Known for pragmatic ownership and improving testing and CI practices, he brings both deep backend craftsmanship and a knack for turning complex data workflows into reliable, observable services.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ocean University of China
Master of Engineering - MEng System Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng System Engineering at Boston University
Chinese, English