# Scott Mai

> Engineering @ Pallet 🚛

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/scottmai

i build products 🪿

BS+MS in Computer Science from USC

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Pallet
Jan 2023 – Present
Own warehouse & scanning, AI document ingestion, billing workflows, and third-party connectivity - driving products from concept through launch. Lead engineering by setting technical direction, onboarding and mentoring the team, and serving as the primary point of contact for system context and key architecture decisions.

### Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Built and launched Rippling Recruiting, leading major feature initiatives including Referrals, Job Boards, Resume Review, and security improvements.

### Founding Software Engineer @ General Task
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
1st employee on a small team building an integration-driven productivity app; built a significant portion of the product and the frontend foundation (Webpack, CI/CD, core UI components), helped drive a #1 Product Hunt launch, and was selected for Y Combinator W23.
https://try.generaltask.com/

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Built and shipped for the Ads Events Infra -> Messenger Ads and Commerce teams

### Teaching Assistant @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
***Fall 2019 - Spring 2022***
Mentored and assisted students through office hours, online forums, leading instructional sessions, and acting as a product stakeholder to develop requirements engineering skills for the following courses:
- Software Engineering
- Programming in Python
- Applied Python
- Data structures in C++

### Software Engineer Intern @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redondo Beach, California
Developed low-level systems in C/C++ and wrote data logging and visualization scripts in Python to debug hardware devices

### Technical Assistant @ Trojan Event Services
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California
Managed lighting and audio equipment for productions at Bovard Auditorium and other USC Campus Venues


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### IB Diploma
Green Valley High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29