# Jeff Gao > ¯\​_(ツ)_/¯ Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffgao ## Work Experience ### Product Engineer @ Partiful Jan 2023 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States • Co-lead product and engineering for Discover feature, one of Partiful's largest feature areas. • Lead product for and developed Org Profiles feature, used to host events for 5% of Partiful's new guests. • Lead product for and developed Apple Maps integration to back all location-based features. • Set up hot reloading and implemented multiple build refactors to speed up development cycles for all engineers. • Identified and fixed issues with login, addressing one of our users' largest pain points and increasing authed usage by 4%. ### Software Engineer @ Shef Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Developed large features and cleanups throughout entire codebase (backend, frontend, auth, payments, build system, CI/CD, data pipeline, data analysis, mobile app). • Lead an overhaul of order and payments backend infrastructure, providing the backbone of new features that increased average order volume by 12%, reduced fraud, and allowed more granular tracking of payments. • Created sequential A/B testing data strategy, analytics dashboard, and guidelines, which increased confidence in experimentation results. • Refactored overall error handling to decrease noise for oncall issues, decrease debug time, and more easily measure business impact of errors, catching and fixing multiple conversion-impacting errors around signup/login/ordering. • Developed consumer frontend for customizing dishes, with a 17% higher average order volume for orders with customizable items compared to those without. ### Software Engineer II for Prime Video @ Amazon Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 • One of three tech leads for greenfield Prime Video client. • Eliminated over 60% of UI stalls on all Android-based Prime Video clients by investigating and modifying caching mechanism. • Designed client-side technical infrastructure for newly adding voice controls to Prime Video client on media devices (TVs, game consoles, etc.). • Mentored and developed team practices for growing team (started as sole engineer and grew to a team size of 6 engineers). • Created specs and coordinated with Korea-based TV manufacturers, London-based Prime Video teams, and Seattle-based Alexa teams to develop APIs for LGTV native integrations with Prime Video app. ### Program Manager for Visual Studio @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington • Increased speed of Visual Studio installation by reducing application size from a 6GB minimum install to a 3GB median install by driving Visual Studio teams to simplify dependency graph. • Expanded feature set of Visual Studio's Enterprise edition to include DevOps tooling by coordinating Microsoft engineering, legal, and marketing teams to partner with UK-based Redgate Software. ### Software Engineering Intern for Android Messenger @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park • Increased sticker message sends and sticker variety by developing UI to promote popular sticker packs. • Implemented capabilities for sticker keyboard to display multiple animations at once. ### Software Engineering Intern for DoubleClick Search @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Kirkland, WA • Reduced storage and bandwidth requirements by refactoring report generation to serve advertising reports compressed. • Created UI components for frontend rewrite and wrote pages for enabling advertisers to A/B test ad copies. ### Research Assistant @ Vanderbilt University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Summer Intern @ Comet Solutions Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Albuquerque, New Mexico ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science, Art, and Math Vanderbilt University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jephph-gao --- Source: https://flows.cv/jeffgao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jeffgao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20