# Alan Tao

> Incoming SWE @ Chalk | CS @ GT

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alantao

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Chalk
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Software Engineer @ Handshake
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
• Reinforcement learning environments for training LLM agents.
• Full-stack engineering w NextJS, tRPC, PostgreSQL.
• AI agents with Vercel AI SDK and MCP Tools.
• Data pipelines w Apache Beam & Google Dataflow.

### Head Teaching Assistant - Machine Learning @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Atlanta, GA
• Head teaching assistant for Machine Learning.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awardee.

### Teaching Assistant - Machine Learning @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, GA
• Teaching assistant for Machine Learning.

### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, GA
• Data race detection in OpenMP and visualization using D3.
• Publication accepted to IWOMP 2024.

### Software Engineer Intern @ PTC
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boston, MA
• Full-stack software engineering with AngularJS, MongoDB, SpringBoot.

### Teaching Assistant - Discrete Math @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, GA
• Teaching assistant for Honors Discrete Math.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alantao

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Last updated: 2026-04-10