Alvin Bao

Software Engineer @ Netflix

San Francisco, California, United States

About

During my first year at Georgia Tech, I was a computer science novice. I drew on every opportunity to learn whether it be through courses, hackathons, or clubs. Although progress was slow (I didn’t even write a line of code at my first hackathon), I knew I’d succeed eventually. Fast-forward to today and I’ve done a total of 6 software engineering internships. I’ve been at companies such as Stripe, DoorDash, Nuro, and Redfin and have worked on various projects seen by hundreds of thousands of users. At each of these companies, I did something different including frontend, backend, infrastructure, databases, and mobile. What can I say? I love a challenge. I’m currently a Software Engineer at Netflix!

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Netflix
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    ☁️ infrastructure

  • Natural Language Processing Senior Teaching Assistant at University of California, Berkeley
    Jan 2024 - May 2024 · 5 mos

    - Collaborated closely with the course instructor to write, review, and publish exams and homework to the students - Held 2 hour weekly office hours open to over 250 students to help with homework, exam preparation, and technical issues on an individual issue basis

  • Student Researcher at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
    Aug 2023 - May 2024 · 10 mos

    - Joined Professor Alexandre Bayen's lab to work on neural networks for traffic flow

  • Software Engineer Intern at Nuro
    May 2023 - Sep 2023 · 5 mos

    - Joined the Mission Control team to work on cloud infrastructure tooling for autonomous driving - Architected a persistent data streaming service using Go, Kubernetes, and Redis improving reliability and increasing availability to 99.999% - Implemented an auto-recovery feature for supervisory requests in cases of client refreshes and network outages using Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Go ensuring 0 losses of requests

  • Software Engineering Intern at Stripe
    Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos

    - Joined the Agent Platform team to work on internal tooling for Stripe support agents - Piloted and launched a read-only case viewing tool to over 3,000 users and serving 280,000+ requests monthly for review and quality assurance purposes saving over $125,000 per year - Engineered a chat summarization feature using GPT-3 to automate chat wrap up tasks reducing average handle time by 10 minutes per case - Recipient of the Golden Orca award for Q1, the employee of the quarter award for the Seattle office