# Bo Cao

> Software Engineer at Waymo

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

smart, passionate, good problem solving ability

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2026 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Level 5 is Lyft’s self-driving division with offices in Palo Alto, California and I am working in the simulation team to enable efficient virtual testing.

Simulation Test Framework: leverage simulation to test autonomy (C++, Python): Developed log-based simulation to test autonomy stacks on real data, added support to visualize simulated ego and recorded ego at the same time for easy comparison. Developed CLI tools to run various simulation testings on workstation. Worked on As-Fast-As-Possible simulation which runs distributed autonomy services in a more deterministic way to improve simulation testing reliability.

Simulation Platform: Simulation in the cloud (Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS): Developed needed features to enable run simulation in the cloud. Redesigned grpc interfaces to make them clearer and more scalable. Designed error collecting system to collect various errors occured during cloud simulation. Rewrote Python CLI tools in Golang: defined interfaces in protobuf, designed overall architecture.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Netease Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Build automation for online MMO game Crusaders of Light, iOS, Android and PC Gameroom.
Responsible for CoL game engine maintenance, intergreted 3rd party sdks.
Added notification, deeplink support for mobile platforms.

### Software Engineer @ NetEase
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Hangzhou

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai City, China
Developed a simple online accounting website using ASP.NET, Angular JS, Bootstrap, hosted on Azure.
Developed a website to test REST APIs of Api.Service component of MSDN publishing system CAPS.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai City, China
Responsible for Qemu backend in the project of virtualizing TPM for HVM in Xen, dived into low-level Linux kernel to add new APIs in Qemu backend to support TPM virtualization.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

### Bachelor's degree in Measurement and control technology and instrument
Xidian University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bo-cao-18976567

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Last updated: 2026-04-12