# Daniel Mao

> Software Engineer @ Gusto

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielmao

Experienced developer always looking to learn something new

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer L3 @ Gusto
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer L2 @ Gusto
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer L1 @ Gusto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. To learn more about life at Gusto, visit gusto.com/careers. We’re hiring in San Francisco, Denver, and New York.

### CS61A Tutor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley
Part of Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, and Fall 2019 CS61A staff as course tutor. Provided weekly small group tutoring sessions, assisted with content creation, led supplementary overviews known as guerilla sections, and collaborated with other course staff to improve student learning experience.

### Computer Science Mentors (CSM) Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley
CSM Associate Mentor* (formerly Junior Mentor) for the 1200+ student introductory computer science course, CS61A. Responsibilities ranged from leading weekly peer-group mentoring sections, assisting during office hours and review sessions, and hosting one-on-one check-ins several times over the course of the semester to ensure students receive personalized assistance and mentoring.  Computer science concepts and data structures taught in the Python programming language as well as Scheme and SQL.

*Associate mentors (AMs) are mentors who have previous experience teaching the course and mentoring students.

### Software Engineer Intern @ NerdWallet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Fullstack Software Engineering Intern on the Content Platform Team

### Intern @ covariant.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Emeryville
Covariant uses advances in Deep Imitation Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning to develop AI software for teaching robots complex tasks. Utilized supervised reinforcement learning to train a series of robots to complete complex tasks. Responsible for finding trends in failure cases and providing insight to help optimize future trials.

### CS 61A Lab Assistant @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Assisted students during weekly lab sections and office hours answering questions related to labs, homework, and projects for CS61A, an introductory computer science course, one of the largest classes offered at UC Berkeley with a rising class size of 1200+ students.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23