# Ricky Mao

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rickymao

I am a software engineer passionate about building powerful products

Check out my Github for more details!

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Arize AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
Making AI better

### Tree Planter @ Treeline Education
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Building an AI lesson editor to save teachers 2-3 hours of time lesson planning

### Software Engineer @ Afore Capital
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building AI agents and internal tools for VCs

### Software Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Pioneered and integrated error reporting functionality into Tesla’s Powerhub dashboard with GraphQL, TypeScript, and React, enabling over 100,000 users to resolve issues with their energy resources and equipment.

- Directed the design and creation of a Dark Mode feature for Tesla’s PowerHub dashboard, using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, increasing user satisfaction by 40%.

- Identified and resolved over 10 critical compatibility issues between Tesla’s React component library and Next.js.

### Frontend Developer @ Shopify
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Developed checkout and discount UI components with TypeScript, React, and Redux in the UI Extensions library to enable over 22,000 developers to make Shopify checkout applications.

- Optimized code coverage by 25%, using Jest unit tests, for React components in Shopify’s application library.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BSE in Software Engineering
University of Waterloo


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05