# Si Lao

> Staff Engineer, Streaming data@Uber

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

Building planet scale data streaming infrastructure

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Streaming data(Kafka, Flink, Pinot)
Building highly performant and scalable data streaming system with low latency

### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Streaming data infra - Building Apache Kafka and its ecosystem at scale for Uber.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Tech lead of Media Infrastructure/Data Infrastructure

- Media processing workflow engine
- Media Metadata storage and serving
- Live Video Infrastructure
- Inhouse video processing infrastructure

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Worked as Research Assistant of Systems Group in School of Computer Science

Worked on Coda,  an advanced networked distributed filesystem.

Advisor: Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Jan Harkes
Keyword: File System, Distributed System

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Served as student technical research intern in Intel Open Source Technology Center. 
Mentored by: Hongbo Min and Chun Gao
Keyword: Chromium, Crosswalk, HTML5


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
Sun Yat-sen University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12