Simon Cao
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Cao is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on full‑stack experience, currently leading platform and product work at Airbnb in the San Francisco Bay Area. He rose through multiple engineering levels at Airbnb since joining as a new grad in 2017, combining front‑end and back‑end expertise to ship scalable features for a global consumer platform. His background includes internships at Microsoft, Chegg, and startups, and he has taught as a course reader at UC Berkeley, reflecting both practical product experience and an academic grounding. Comfortable across the stack, Simon balances shipping user-facing experiences with engineering for reliability and scale. Colleagues would note his steady internal progression and long tenure at a single high‑impact company as evidence of deep domain knowledge and strong execution.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese, English
Github Skills (108)
switch10
storekit10
extensible10
sqlite10
query-builder10
redis-database10
sql9
database9
azure9
rust9
postgresql9
abstraction9
in-app-purchase9
operator9
receipt-validation9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
appcoda/React-Native-Demo-App
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 commits in 2 months
demo-appreactbuilt-with-reactreact-nativesimple-demo
cs160-berkeley/Group-3-Project
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:19 commits in 21 days
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