Ken Kao Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

Joined at Series A. Grow & support a distributed team of 85+ (across North America, Europe, and Brazil) of software engineers, AI scientists, product managers, IT, and security to empower physicians with Gen AI, starting in radiology. Member of exec team reporting to the CEO. Rad AI is a Series B healthcare AI company starting in Radiology. We have raised $80M+ from tier-1 investors including Khosla Ventures, Gradient (Google's AI fund), and ARTIS. We're currently present at more than 1/3 of radiology groups and healthcare systems in the US, including Kaiser Permanente, HCA Healthcare, and Geisinger. We're hiring across all roles! https://www.radai.com/careers

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Helping support current AR & VR devices and building out new ones. Helped make key improvements to Quest 2, launched Rayban Stories, Quest Pro, and Quest 3.Support the following areas (65+ engineers distributed across North America and Europe):- System Health (e.g. performance, memory, compute, power, thermal etc)- Core Operating System (e.g. kernel, scheduler, storage, memory, etc)- OS Developer Infrastructure (e.g. build, release, testing infra, dev tooling etc)- OS emulation

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Head of Eng for Hosting Tools. Led 4 teams (25+ eng) building out hosting tools spanning across the stack including web, backend, mobile, and data engineering. - Product areas: messaging, collaborative hosting (co-hosting), listing management, calendar, pricing & availability rules, opportunity dashboard, host performance metrics dashboard, host taxes, etc.- Platform components: product permissions, host UX framework, mobile framework, host notifications framework, etcCompany-wide initiatives: - Revamped tech leadership onboarding (including Eng, TPM, and DS management)- Piloted tech leadership continuous education (e.g. Intro to OKR)- Proposed and designed the Tech Lead Manager (TLM) role- Mentored 10+ EMs over 2+ years I also built out a centralized data engineering team and transitioned it over (https://firstround.com/review/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups/)

New York, Ny, Us

- Led 3 teams building out enterprise blockchain solutions with key financial institutions to record and reconcile transactions- Revamped end to end recruiting process for software engineers and hired first recruiter. Grew company from 40 to 70 FTEs.- Started efforts in diversity & inclusion and injection of values & soft skills into the recruiting process

New York, New York, Us

Acquired by Roche in Feb 2018.- Drove product development for clinico-genomic database offering, which combines Genomic sequencing data with cancer treatment data- Increased all Flatiron’s research datasets in size by 25%+ and removed survivor bias by developing a solution to incorporate patient data from prior to joining the Flatiron EHR network- Revamped recruiting process and interviews, closed 100% of candidates through post-offer "reverse" interviews

Denver, Colorado, Us

- Managed 3 teams, building out partnership with a top-10 bank in North America (2nd largest commercial client)- Mentored tech leads and managers from other projects on personnel management and growth- Supervised execution of several teams spanning multiple global offices and industries, driving tens of millions of dollars in cash collection- Performed technical outreach and helped close new projects- Designed and ran the Forward Deployed Engineer 2-week onboarding program

Denver, Colorado, Us

- Second FDE to use Palantir Foundry, Palantir's enterprise data integration & analytics platform. - Drove key feature and product decisions by bringing client needs back to the product team and prioritizing requests with product vision- Tech lead successful projects in insurance and consumer-packaged goods industry

Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Tw

- Led a team of 4 to develop and maintain war simulations for 3 major national military exercises- Reduced 150+ man-hours for 3 national military exercises by redesigning software system to reuse overlapping data- Instructed a mandatory course to 400+ marines on how to operate military simulations

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Coordinated a team of 9 to create a visual web tool in Java to empower non-technical people to integrate client data with Palantir Metropolis Platform• Designed demo for the home mortgages industry and created notional data with Python. Presented to external advisors• Performed data integration and custom features on Palantir Metropolis in Java for a $152B asset management firm

Arlington, Va, Us

- Acquired by Oracle in May 2016

Houston, Texas, Us

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., Electrical Engineering