Thomas Chao Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior staff mobile engineer, tackling the future architecture for all Uber apps.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

* Gmail Client Architect - Architect for next generation Gmail experiences, bringing Google Chat and Google Meet into Gmail on Android/iOS/Web. Providing a unified communication mechanism for billions of users across the world.* Gmail / Inbox Android Tech Lead / Manager (2015 - Present) - Lead team of 20 engineers to develop Gmail Android. Projects range from deep technical infrastructure (merging Inbox into Gmail), through functional features (Smart Compose, Dark Mode, OEM partnerships) and non-functional projects (debuggability initiatives, performance efforts).* Google Nearby Tech Lead (2013-2015) - Designed Android and Server APIs to power Google Nearby, a technology allowing pairing of devices in close physical proximity.

Lionside Inc. was acquired by ngMOCO:) Inc. in July 2011.* Architecting next generation mobile-based game development SDK.* Provides a developer friendly framework for creating game backends. Built-in support for multi-data-center scaling.* Employs mongoDB with heavy caching to ensure excellent read and write throughput.* Seamlessly migrates user information between data-centers to improve perceived latency.* Team lead for the backend development of two Facebook games (LionsideFootball and NBALegend) servicing 200,000+ daily active users and over 8 million total users. * Used various AWS services (EC2, SDB, S3, CloudFront), as well as 3rd party services (Akamai, AlertSite, Rightscale) to scale our infrastructure.* Wrote and managed build, test, and deployment infrastructure on top of Hudson. * The build system supported Flash, Java, and creative content. * Reduced deployment to a single button push. * Cut build time by 70%.* Architected and built a real-time analytics system * This supported over 250,000 types of metrics and over 500 million transactions a day.

* Technical lead on projects spanning multiple teams and sites.* Primary cross-departmental software contact for the Altera high-end product, StratixIVGT.* Mentored offshore software teams in the development of ArriaIIGX analog support.* Developed, implemented, and tested periphery fitter algorithm for CycloneIVGX. Ensured that it was extensible for future variants of the family.* Designed and implemented software for the analog portion of StratixIVGX. Served as primary resource for Marketing and Applications to help resolve customer issues.* Software Engineering representative in several Customer Advisory meetings. Helped facilitate the customer's design process. Identified opportunities for future product improvements which have led to enhancements in the current generation of products.

* Developed two programs that enhanced process efficiency. One tracks product quality in real-time and alerts engineers to statistical deviations. The other enables 3rd party hardware to modernize the defect recording process.

Ms, Software Engineering

Ba, Computer Science

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