# Chao Ren

> Accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy with code

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chaoren

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Infrastructure Software for Manufacturing Testing Engineering team
- CI/CD, manufacturing software release & deployment automation
- React/TypeScript-based Web UI for tester frontend 
- Tester Monitoring/Alerting
- Test Data Storage & Analysis Infra
- Tools to improve Developer Efficiency

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pony.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Fremont, CA
Build Services & Offline Infra

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA
Pinterest is a visual discovery tool to help people find what they love and try an idea offline. I was in Data Eng team, which handles a massive amount of offline data processing.

- worked on a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) engine https://github.com/pinterest/pinball and DAG composer for large scale offline data processing, which is similar to https://airflow.apache.org. 

- worked on a microdata framework to break Pinterest's core pin/board/user data pipelines into smaller and more manageable ones, which achieves better isolation and faster data refresh.

### System Software Engineer @ Teradata Aster
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Carlos, CA
Aster Data Systems was a data management and analysis software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. It was founded in 2005 and acquired by Teradata in 2011. I was in the Distributed Service team.

- worked on distributed database cluster management, Docker and Consul.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Madison, WI
25% TA for CS536 Introduction to Programming Languages and Compilers
25% TA for CS368 Learning a New Programming Language (C++)

### Research Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Madison, WI
RA position in Dept. of Computer Sciences
1) Visualized processes in different hosts with Graphviz
2) Dynamically showed behavior of processes (fork, connect, exec...) with Javascript in a browser

### Software Engineer Intern @ SanDisk
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Milpitas, CA
SanDisk is a brand of Western Digital that produces flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and Solid State Drives (SSD). I did a 13-week summer intern in a size=4 research team.

- Automatically ran apps on Android devices and recorded system indicators
- Plotted system indicators & Flash I/O in line, histogram, heatmap & stacked graphs for further analysis
- Organized all graphs in HTML/CSS with hover effect (mouse-on text popup) & dropdown menu

### HCI Lab programmer @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Madison, Wisconsin
1) Used Kinect to track the skeleton of a participant and got the (x,y,z) of the head
2) Used WiFi to control a robot (Nao, http://goo.gl/Zjy8E3) to maintain mutual gaze & avoidance with the participant


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chao-ren-14564443

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Last updated: 2026-03-22