# Alvin Bao > Software Engineer @ Netflix Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alvinbao 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! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2024 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States ☁️ infrastructure ### Natural Language Processing Senior Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States - 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 @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States - Joined Professor Alexandre Bayen's lab to work on neural networks for traffic flow ### Software Engineer Intern @ Nuro Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States - 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 @ Stripe Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States - 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 ### Student Advisor @ Developer Student Clubs Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Developer Student Clubs Lead @ Developer Student Clubs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Represented Georgia Tech as 1 of only 158 active chapters chosen by Google to lead a Developer Student Club - Coordinated 15+ events while increasing average event attendance by 150% over the 2020/2021 school year - Hosted the first Cloud Hero hackathon workshop nationally for over 500 viewers in the 2020/2021 school year - Educated over 700 students across all events about Google Cloud Platform, Web Development, and AI ### Tech Team Software Engineer @ HexLabs, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Overhauled an internal hackathon project judging tool used to judge 200+ projects at HackGT 8 using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Express, and Postgres - Implemented a participant facing interface allowing 2000+ participants to exchange points for prizes using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and MongoDB - Maintained a team formation tool used by hundreds of students across all HackGT events using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and MongoDB - Optimized an internal hackathon project judging tool used to judge 20+ projects at HealthTech using Typescript and Postgres ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cockroach Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Joined the Disaster Recovery team to work on survivability for CockroachDB - Improved RESTORE operation checkpointing by preventing reingestion of hundreds of gigabytes of data increasing efficiency by 30% - Added functionality to allow users to easily restore multi-region database clusters when taking backups ### Software Engineer Intern @ DoorDash Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States - Joined the DoorDash Merchant Revenue team to work on Loyalty programs for DoorDash Merchants - Launched and A/B tested 2 reward structures in the iOS app using Kotlin for 1033 stores reaching 140k monthly users - Implemented 2 additional new reward structures in the iOS app using Swift and Kotlin for a pilot launch of around 15-20 stores reaching 2k monthly users per reward structure ### Head Teaching Assistant (CS 1332 - Data Structures and Algorithms) @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Managed team of 12 teaching assistants in order to deliver course concepts to a class of 250+ students - Collaborated closely with the course instructor to write, review, and publish exams and homework to the students - Maintained and added features to a web based autograder tool used by 20+ TAs (React) ### Teaching Assistant (CS 1332 - Data Structures and Algorithms) @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Led weekly recitations with lectures and activities designed to facilitate the understanding of data structures to a class of 50 students - Held 3 hour weekly office hours open to over 250 students to help with homework, exam preparation, and technical issues on an individual issue basis ### CS 1100 Teaching Assistant @ College of Computing at Georgia Tech Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Mentored and taught 31 first-year computer science students about how to adjust to life at Georgia Tech - Organized a virtual event for 70 first-years to meet each other one on one ### Software Engineer Intern @ Redfin Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Joined the Transaction Efficiency Engineering team to work on internal tools for Redfin Employees and Agents - Implemented an internal tool using React and Java that affected listing fees for 500,000+ homes in 80+ markets across the US and Canada - Eliminated the need to make raw SQL queries for listing fee updates reducing major errors when updating business market minimums ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alvinbao --- Source: https://flows.cv/alvinbao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alvinbao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22