Rong Cao
Founder at Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRong Cao is a founder and seasoned technology leader with two decades of experience at the intersection of identity, security, and AI, having scaled engineering teams and products at Auth0 (through its $6.5B Okta acquisition) and Socure. He builds trust infrastructure for high-scale systems—shipping identity platforms, adaptive authentication, and AI-powered verification that processed billions of authentications and achieved industry-leading accuracy and throughput. As an operator he has repeatedly scaled orgs, revenue, and platform reliability (e.g., tripling ARR at Socure and doubling Auth0’s engineering while cutting incidents and vulnerabilities substantially). Rong is now focused on cross-organization authorization for AI agents from a founder’s seat while also investing in and advising early-stage AI and infrastructure startups. His background blends hands-on product engineering, enterprise/government compliance (FedRAMP experience), and venture insight, making him a strong candidate for roles like CAIO or VP Eng/CTO where AI and identity converge. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of turning advanced ML and CV prototypes into production systems that measurably improve business metrics and operational scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at University of HoustonY Combinator Startup Investor schoolAdvisor Track, Advisor Track at Startup School OnlineVenture capital financing, Venture capital financing at Venture Deals | Kauffman Fellows Academy and Techstars
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (3)
rcao137/jammming
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 5 months
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