# Emily Cai

> Software Engineer @ Airtable

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilycai

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack engineer in the core product org.

### Software Engineer @ Robust Intelligence
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Software engineer on the Platform Team. Worked with a small team to build the company's initial product offering on the backend side. Built and owned large portions of the backend, including all infrastructure for both internal and on-premise deployments, a system for asynchronous task execution, CI/CD pipelines, and websocket communication. Collaborated with frontend and machine learning engineers to design, build, and iterate quickly on product features.

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Researched techniques for image segmentation of placentas in fetal MRI scans in the Medical Vision Group.

### Software Engineering Extern @ Segment
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Extern on the Special Projects Team. Worked with a partner to build an internal tool for aggregating and displaying security alerts. Built a Go backend which exposed a webhook to ingest alerts from various sources, as well as an API to serve content to the web app. Set up infrastructure for the service, including the database, authentication, and CI/CD.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Two Sigma IQ
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Intern on the Microservices Infrastructure team. Wrote a Dockerized Python app to generate Terraform execution plans. Built a Java service to serve as an API, orchestrate invocation of Docker containers, and aggregate results. Set up infrastructure for both, including AWS resources, CI/CD, monitoring, and permissioning.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Intern on the Experiences team. Built a data pipeline to retarget users with customized emails upon trip completion. Ran an experiment to highlight longer, more detailed reviews on product pages. Created API endpoints to manage review photos displayed on product pages.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lark Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked directly with CTO and Chief Architect to build key features for production and refactor core code. Built features to validate user health data using statistical models, which significantly reduced inaccuracy in data collection. Refactored data processing frameworks for scalability.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Homestead High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23