# Minhan Cao

> Software Engineer at IBM

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

I am a software engineer with experience in full-stack development, distributed systems, and database performance engineering.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
• Developed testing infrastructure to evaluate the throughput performance of Prestissimo clusters under varying cluster configurations, workloads, and levels of query concurrency
• Automated weekly throughput tests and built Grafana dashboards to collect, visualize, and analyze performance data from Prestissimo clusters
• Developed LinuxMemoryChecker in open-source Prestissimo to enhance tracking of current system memory usage for out of memory detection in Prestissimo on Linux machines
• Migrated and optimized performance workloads to run on Presto/Velox for benchmarking and comparative performance analysis
• Developed and deployed infrastructure to provision Prestissimo clusters with SSD caching for accelerated query execution
• Benchmarked and analyzed Prestissimo clusters with and without SSD caching to assess cost-performance trade-offs, and experimented with various SSD cache configurations and SSD filesystems to determine optimal settings
• Created Grafana dashboards to visualize metrics from performance workload runs, enabling real-time performance monitoring and analysis
• Developed QA infrastructure for Db2 upgrade and restore validation, improving regression coverage and reliability
• Provided QA technical support to IBM clients regarding Db2 catalog issues
• Investigated and remediated test failures across major test buckets in Db2 catalog services
• Collaborated and developed with new hires across teams to design and build a React + Go full-stack web application that visualizes IBM Cloud resource usage and notifies users of underutilized assets in real time

### Software Engineering Intern @ Rocket Software
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Campbell, California
• Used React and Java to create new components and improve existing features of a UI web application inside Zowe, an open-source framework, to provide customers with a user-friendly experience
• Worked in an agile environment with a small team that helped improve problem-solving and communication skills through daily scrum meetings and a Jira ticket tracking system
• Assisted with coding REST API endpoints as needed for new product enhancements
• Gained experience with Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, legacy software, Db2, and the Mainframe
• Collaborated and presented working prototypes to customers, executives, and UX designers

### Mathematics Tutor @ De Anza College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino, California
• Tutored students seeking help in statistics and algebra


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
San José State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Computer Science
De Anza College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/minh-an-cao
- GitHub: https://github.com/minhancao

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Source: https://flows.cv/minhan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/minhan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29