Sandy Tao is a software engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building user-facing and developer tools across major tech firms and startups. Currently at Google working on the Gemini CLI, Sandy blends backend and tooling expertise with a strong product sensibility. Prior roles include improving mobile document editing at Microsoft OneDrive and building data ETL and visualization pipelines during a data analytics internship at Rice University. Sandy’s background spans full-stack web work—React and Three.js prototypes—to systems and mobile engineering, reflecting comfort across languages and platforms. Holding a Master’s in Computer Science from Rice and a Bachelor’s from the University of Melbourne, Sandy combines academic rigor with practical shipping experience. Notably, Sandy has moved smoothly between research-oriented data work and production-grade client tooling, making them effective at translating complex requirements into polished developer and user experiences.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rice University
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