Peter Gao
Engineering Lead at NextPay (YC W21)
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPeter Gao is an empathetic, data-driven engineering lead with 13 years of experience building high‑availability fintech and consumer systems from the codebase up to team structure and budget. He combines hands-on engineering with strong people leadership—mentoring teams, driving major refactors, and doubling feature release cadence while cutting downtime 6x and managing a US$1.2M engineering budget. Peter has founded and scaled AI-enabled products (including a YC-backed payments role and a startup that helped raise over US$1.5M for founders) and applies AI judiciously where it drives real ROI rather than hype. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and DevOps, he’s launched payment integrations handling $52M+ annually and shipped an LLM-driven sales vertical that boosted MRR by 23% in its first quarter. Known for insisting on evidence over “magical thinking,” he focuses on root causes and measurable outcomes while recruiting and growing senior engineering talent in Singapore.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, B+ (3.43 CGPA), BSc, Computer Engineering, B+ (3.43 CGPA) at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
html10
browser-detection10
terminfo10
python10
ruby10
audio10
detector10
chrome-extension10
sliders10
firefox-addon10
ruby-on-rails10
opengl10
rails10
jquery-plugin10
mvc10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
peteygao/device_detector
Feb 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 4 months
device-detection
peteygao/peteygao.github.io
Apr 2015 - Oct 2024
Peter's website
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 7 months
javascript
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