# Keming (Alex) Gao

> Engineering @ Pear VC

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/keming

trying to get better at making things

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ Pear VC
Jan 2025 – Present
Accelerating firm throughput and helping the firm operate more intelligently through the thoughtful application of AI and software in workflows for operators, investors, and founders. AI, full stack development, scripting and scraping, the whole nine yards. Diligence and sourcing for investments when/where appropriate.

### Technical Lead | Identity Team @ OnePay
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Engineered the onboarding and authentication experience for millions of users across different product lines. Led team of four engineers. Responded to P0 customer issues on a moment's notice.

### Product Engineer | Onboarding & Auth @ OnePay
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Graduate Student Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, CA
Instructor for Data 104 / History 184: Human Contexts and Ethics of Data. Created and taught curriculum connecting data science with history, science and technology studies, ethics, philosophy, etc. Received near perfect student evaluations for both semesters taught.

Instructor for Data 198: Data Science Discovery Program. Wrote and taught new curriculum about project management in data science for industry and research, data science best practices, ethics in data science, etc. Helped students with their data science projects with industry/academic partners.

Instructor for Ethnic Studies 198. Taught students about taiko drumming from an ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, and practical standpoint.

### Data Science Consultant @ Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
consulting, software, data science

### Research Engineer @ Global Policy Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley
full stack web development, data pipelines, ml for economic/environmental/etc policy

### Data Science Fellow @ Coding it Forward
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
machine learning, the us census bureau

### Deep Learning Engineering Intern @ Air Force Research Laboratory
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hawaiian Islands
deep learning, generative models, imagery of stars and space

### Research Intern @ Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley
sustainable transportation, pollution, public health, climate change mitigation

### Project Manager @ CMG Strategy Consulting
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
led amazing students on cool paid projects

fa2018 - senior advisor for project with PayPal
sp2018 - senior advisor for project with Oath
fa2017 - led project with Twitch's biz ops team
sp2017 - led project with Instagram's product team
fa2016 - working with Twitter's partnerships team
sp2016 - working with Pinterest's product team

### Data Science Intern @ Clarity Movement Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
air pollution, environmental/public health, data science, data products, technical writing

### Data Engineering Intern @ PlayStation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Diego
architecture, automation, reliability for cloud infrastructure

### Network Engineering Assistant @ UC Berkeley Information Services and Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | UC Berkeley
driving haphazardly through Berkeley to save our students' wifi


## Education
### Master's degree in Information Systems and Management
UC Berkeley School of Information

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics with honors, Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10