# Jerry C.

> Staff Software Engineer,  multiple startups  and experience at big tech

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jerryc

Author of LevelDB.jl. Julia C++ integration. Bootcamped with PyTorch compiler team.
Bazel, Rust, Flutter, Emacs, LSP

## Work Experience
### Staff Backend Software Engineer @ Machinify, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present
Big Data and Distributed Systems. We are hiring fully remote software engineers see https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/machinify?departmentId=382bef34-ecea-46ee-bbce-3a5b05c27c64

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Worked on PyTorch compiler (TorchFX  , and  C++ compiler)https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/61820 , https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/61599 )  , Spark SQL, Hive, and on-device machine learning

### Lead Software Engineer @ Jobox.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Building the core backend service that dispatches service technicians to jobs, also worked on payments and settlements. Build on top of AWS, lambda functions, Java and Python.  Mentor junior engineers. Promote team wide best practices such as end to end testing etc.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tempo Automation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Python C++, Computer Vision and image processing for an industrial application. Flutter and DART programming  for an mobile app.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Clover Network, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
EMV, Android, C , Secure Credit Card Payment Processing
Clover is the largest competitor to Square in merchant payment processing

### Principal Software Engineer,  Manager , Presto (NASDAQ PRST) @ Presto
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City
E la Carte, Android tablets on restaurant tables. No more waiting for that check and card receipt. 

As the first and one of the two original members of the Android Presto tablet software team,  built the entire menu ordering/payment/games application from scratch under aggressive timelines, cooperated with and managed expectations of many external and internal stakeholders  (see https://presto.com/).

• Recruited engineers and managed a small team for a few months.
• Provided accurate engineering time estimates to executives.
• Persuaded C-levels on key build vs buy decisions that significantly reduced cost and risk.
• Managed technical risks, software specs and deliverables of Chinese custom Android/card reader partners. 
• Wrote complete app bootstrapping/install system.
• Built image-intensive responsive UIs.
• Quickly plugged memory leaks in a pre-existing Qt C++ client for an early demo.

Technologies worked with:  Android, NodeJS, Python, Java.

### Contractor @ Lab126
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Worked with Android, Python, Chromium in the Amazon Kindle Browser team.

### Software Engineer @ Skype
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto
I was in the new Skype Cloud Team building REST API servers. Netty, Async Sockets, WebSocket, C++, AWS EC2, boto, message queues, Java.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Siemens Medical Systems
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Malvern, PA
Wrote an ANSI X12 EDI parser in Java/ANTLR. Gave a talk to a sister company on it.

### Software Engineer , Senior Software Engineer @ OPNET Technologies
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001
Hardcore C and C++ (millions of lines of code).  We built our own low level system and graphical libraries.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
University of Rochester


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jerry-c-42975
- Portfolio: http://www.gaocan.com
- Portfolio: http://zcai.gaocan.com/gomuku.html
- GitHub: https://github.com/hackingspirit/lattice

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Last updated: 2026-04-12