Summary
Peng Cao is a software engineer with a Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology (CAS) and over a decade of experience building infrastructure for Ads and Search at Google, following a stint in serving infrastructure at Rocket Fuel. He combines deep algorithmic expertise—proven by top rankings on competitive programming platforms like ZOJ and prolific problem-setting for Hackerrank, HackerEarth and regional contests—with practical systems experience in C/C++, Python, Scala, HDFS and Apache Pig. His background includes applied research and internships at Baidu, VMware and NetEase where he shipped algorithms for compression and bilingual webpage matching, reflecting a knack for turning theory into production. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is equally comfortable designing scalable algorithms and implementing them rapidly in large-scale production systems.
10 years of coding experience