Shawn Cao

Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States10 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering roadmap at Google for product reliability.
  • Architected credential-free Cloud Service integration.
  • Award-winning engineer with multiple Feats of Engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Software Development expert with extensive experience in enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentProgrammingCloud Computing

Other Skills

JavaC++SQLPythonAgile MethodologiesCloud Service ProviderKubernetesAutomated user onboardingMetadata pipelineCloud resource managementService metricsEngineering roadmapGCESpanner DBVersioning systems

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Harvey

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 4 mos · On-site

  • Building Enterprise Platform for legal AI.
JavaC++SQLPythonAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development+1

Confluent

Staff Software Engineer

May 2022Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Served as Tech Lead for a 10-engineer team, enhancing operational readiness and project delivery processes.
  • Architected a credential-free Cloud Service Provider integration, achieving over 5% adoption within three quarters.
  • Led the development of an automated user onboarding system, reaching over 50% adoption among paid organizations.
  • Designed a high-throughput metadata pipeline to synchronize user data across 2,000 Kubernetes clusters.
Cloud Service ProviderKubernetesAutomated user onboardingMetadata pipelineAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development+1

Google

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2020Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · On-site

  • Tech Lead of the GCE-DevCluster team
  • Proposed and led the engineering roadmap for improving product's reliability, the main pillars are cloud resource usage, physical machine lifecycle management and service metrics
  • Proposed and designed DevCluster 3.0, a future looking vision of the system focusing on improving the efficiency and performance during the key steps in the DevCluster lifecycle.
  • 2020 Feats of Engineering Award winner
Cloud resource managementService metricsEngineering roadmapSoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing

Software Engineer

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · On-site

  • Work on GCE-DevCluster team, the team focus on providing a hermetic GCE(Goolge Compute Engine) for internal use, the product supports end-to-end VM lifecycles as GCE IaaS offers to Google Cloud customers.
  • Proposed and delivered project Phoenix, a system to manage the lifecycle of creating and reuse Spanner DBs in GCE DevCluster.
  • Proposed and delivered project Golden DevCluster, a index based versioning system to manage the versions of 150+ GCE components.
  • 2018 Feats of Engineering Award winner
GCESpanner DBVersioning systemsSoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing

Software Engineer

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · On-site

  • First team member of project Centigrate, we built a Cloud integration solution from 0 to 1 that's designed for modeling end-to-end Cloud components “in-a-box”
  • Designed and implemented the storage layer, onboarded Spanner, Megastore and IAM.
Cloud integrationStorage layerSpannerMegastoreIAMSoftware Development+1

Ibm

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Littleton, MA

  • Worked on Verse Core-UI team, resolved a list of improvements to User Interface (UI) components to enhance the performance.
  • Prototyped and coded email message loading animation, calendar meeting health and draft tray layout. (JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
JavaScriptHTMLCSSSoftware Development

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2014Dec 2014 · 3 mos · Littleton, MA

  • In IBM OpenPages Release Management team, worked on improvements to Legal, Accessibility, Security and Globalization aspects of our software products.
  • Developed a copyright/license format detecting and modification tool (Java).
JavaSoftware Development

Ercot

Model Maintenance Engineer Intern

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Taylor, TX

  • Developed a transmission stations real-time ranking system, developed the algorithm using user defined parameters and data of power grid extracted from multiple databases.
  • Developed a XML automation tool using data extracted from database. (Java, SQL, JDBC)
JavaSQLSoftware Development

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Electrical Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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