# Brenny Chao

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
• Developed and released the file version management feature to ~36M tenants, including history management that delivered ~76.5 PB of storage relief for ~2K preview customers by trimming >97B unwanted versions.
• Spearheaded reporting and telemetry initiatives, including the file version storage footprint report and SQL platform 
visualizations, leveraging C#, SQL, TypeScript, and JavaScript to enable data-driven prioritization of key issues and 
align global teams.
• Led UX and API implementation of the file version management control plane using React (frontend) and C# (backend), giving customers greater control over metadata and blob storage footprint.
• Unified and automated backend infrastructure with SQL and C#, normalizing database repair processes and introducing incident alerts to maintain steady-state configurations.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Designed and implemented SQL/C# dashboards to visualize organization-wide database query analytics, providing insight into big data performance and making query performance outliers easier to identify.
• Developed a query optimization tool that consolidated inefficient queries into general-use queries, reducing overall executions and lowering CPU costs.

### SOC Power Design Verification Engineering Intern @ AMD
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Develop and debug the testcases in C++ to cross verify the SOC features with the design using simulation tools such as Verdi to examine the waveform and RTL Verilog code. 
• Enhanced time management skills and attention to details through handling individual tests having runtime over 20 hours using vim in Linux environment. 
• Using Python Numpy and Pandas libraries to extract and obtain features that would help support the development of a machine learning project which can increase the overall verification effieciency.

### Advisor @ IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Logistics Managing Director @ IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Spearheaded a team of 50+ members in executing 2 major hackathons, and several technical & networking workshops.
•  Major Hackathons including MakeUofT, the largest-scale Makeathon in North America, with 1000+ applicants, NewHacks, a beginner-friendly MLH affiliated hackathon with 400+ applicants.
• Led a team of 10+ to launch a mentorship-focused podcast for first-year engineering students at UofT during the global pandemic, achieving 200+ downloads.

### Logistics Associate @ IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
•  Organize Technical workshops, bringing in companies from the industry to connect with students of UofT. 
•  Host the biggest makeathon across Canada, MakeUofT, with over 1000 applicants.

### Event Executive @ Taiwan Republic of China Students Association at University of Toronto (ROCSAUT)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
•  Organize cultural events such as night markets and themed parties 
•  Coordinate parties for more than 80 people


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Engineering
University of Toronto
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023

### Burnaby Central Secondary School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/brenny
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Last updated: 2026-03-22