Ryan Cao
Experiencer at Life
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRyan Cao is a software engineer and technical leader based in Palo Alto with a five-year track record spanning internships at Google and Citadel, research roles at Stanford, and dual leadership positions as CFO/CTO at Modulus Labs while holding a current experiential role at Life. He combines rigorous academic training—a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford—with hands-on product and systems experience across research, finance, and startup settings. Comfortable moving between research labs and production teams, he has practical exposure to algorithmic research from the Brunskill Lab and high-performance engineering in industry internships. As a technical executive at a young company, he blends strategic financial oversight with deep technical execution, a less common pairing that helps translate technical roadmaps into business outcomes. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, he brings both startup grit and research discipline to projects that require shipping reliable, scalable software.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Salutatorian; 103.06 GPA, High School Diploma, Salutatorian; 103.06 GPA at Northside Health Careers HSBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Latin
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (4)
vulnerabilities10
security10
fuzzing10
stability9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
google/clusterfuzz
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Scalable fuzzing infrastructure.
Contributions:27 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 11 days
fuzzingsecuritystabilityvulnerabilities
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.