Zheng Gao
Staff Software Engineer at Stack AV
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolZheng Gao is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with eight years of experience building and operating CI/CD, SCM, and developer tooling across large-scale Linux and macOS fleets. He led foundational tools and ops at LinkedIn—managing Artifactory, JIRA, SVN/Gerrit migrations and the pipelines that run thousands of build/test nodes—before moving to product engineering at Stack AV. Technically fluent in C++, Java, Python and Shell, he has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems (protocol buffers, state machines, unit testing) and automating complex deployments. His background spans low-latency trading systems, network analyzers, and distributed file-system research from a PhD program, giving him rare breadth across systems, networking and developer infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, durable solutions that bridge research rigor and production reliability. He often surfaces non-obvious efficiency gains by treating CI/CD and SCM as first-class components of product architecture rather than mere utilities.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasGeneral Science, General Science at The High School Affiliated to NanJing Normal UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University at Buffalo
English, Chinese, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zheng-gao/ez_bash
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 397 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
zheng-gao/ez_code
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 426 pushes in 1 year
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