Roy Bao
Co-Founder & CTO at Ops Terminal
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRoy Bao is an engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams and developer platforms. He has driven measurable impact at Brex—saving 3,000+ engineering hours annually, cutting cloud spend by over $1M, and improving developer experience by 56%—and has repeatedly translated those platform lessons into startups and product teams. Based in Vancouver, he now explores AI applied to messy, judgment-based work, building tools like Cheatdeck that turn natural language into reusable automations. Roy combines hands-on engineering, platform strategy, and mentoring—having led small founding teams and taught over 100 bootcamp students—so he blends startup grit with measurable operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (74)
backend10
elixir10
ecommerce10
javascript9
wechat9
entity9
mobile-web9
entities9
vue9
mobile-ui9
mongodb9
database8
ant8
postgresql8
sqlite8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rbao/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
freshcom/freshcom_dashboard
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:377 commits, 90 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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