# James Luo > SWE @ The Trade Desk | Computer Science at UC San Diego Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesluo Hi! I am a software engineer at The Trade Desk. I look forward to gaining new experiences in industry and am always excited to face new challenges! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ The Trade Desk Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ The Trade Desk Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States Developed a standalone web app that will allow self-serving external user management, which reduces the number of support tickets, enhances scalability, and decreases company risk Created C# GraphQL queries to filter data based on user input from the search bar and user-specific permissions Implemented functionality allowing inter-service communication through gRPC calls ### Computer Science Tutor @ UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Diego, California, United States Advanced Data Structures - CSE 100 Assisted students with debugging and understanding personal assignments and projects Helped the Instructional Team answer conceptual questions on data structures Graded Personal Assignments and Midterms ### Software Engineer Intern @ The Trade Desk Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States Launched an end-to-end pipeline from scratch to transfer all query plans from Databricks, EMR, and an internal Apache Spark dependency to Neo4J Graph Database to fully enhance data discovery Added a Scala Spark Listener to an internal Spark dependency, transferring all data to Marquez Database Constructed a fully-developed Dockerized Python library including documentation and CI/CD unit and integration tests to transfer OpenLineage data from Marquez into Neo4J using Cypher Queries Developed Neo4J Cypher Queries to discover and reduce duplicate work among all TTD query plans ### Software Engineer Intern (QA) @ Umbo Computer Vision Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Executed test plans to perform quality checks on upcoming features, ensuring no issues in two new features Developed scripts to query MongoDB & generate camera alerts to ensure a Report Export release has no bugs Implemented a Python tool that extracted data from NewRelic and MongoDB and combined them in a .csv file to help the Field Application engineer team debug support issues ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science UC San Diego ### Ohlone College ### Mission San Jose High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-luo09 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesluo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesluo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11