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# ☎️ Contact
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# 🌐 Links
🕸️ [edwardgao.com](https://edwardgao.com)
🐙 [github.com/ed-scaped](https://github.com/ed-scaped)
# 💼 Employment
## Senior Software Engineer
_**GoodRx**_ | _Remote (Feb 2025 - Present)_
- Coined intuitive and concise vocabulary to facilitate communication
- Worked with stakeholders to understand and refine product requirements
- Brought projects to completion by coordinating cross-functional teams
- Spread and cemented knowledge by crafting networks of documentation
## Software Engineer
_**GoodRx**_ | _Remote (Feb 2022 - Feb 2025)_
- Wrote gRPC APIs in Golang and GraphQL APIs in Typescript
- Maintain legacy services and expand on new ones
- Built discounting platform for GoodRx to better control prices
- Set standards and developed procedures for internal tool platform
- Developed ETL pipelines for prescription drug pricing data
## Test Engineer
_**Meta Reality Labs (via Insight Global)**_ | _Seattle, WA (Sep 2021 - Feb 2022)_
- Developed software test infrastructure and automation in Python
- Set up continuous integration (CI) pipelines for nightly/diff tests
- Led qualification efforts for complex hardware and software systems
## Software Engineer Intern
_**Electronic Arts**_ | _Seattle, WA (Jun 2020 - Sep 2020)_
- Created a more RESTful API in Node.js while maintaining backwards compatibility
- Parsed and synchronized data between AWS DynamoDB and Jira using AWS SQS
- Documented API thoroughly using OpenAPI 3.0 specification with Swagger
- Followed Test-Driven Development (TDD) and wrote tests with 100% code coverage
## Undergrad Intern
_**T-Mobile**_ | _Bellevue, WA (Oct 2019 - Jun 2020)_
- Developed Svelte web app to collect and manage radio equipment inventory data
- Visualized walking directions to lab equipment in 3D with Three.js for 997 devices
- Deployed both Svelte front-end and MongoDB back-end with Docker in 4 months
## Research Assistant
_**Seattle University**_ | _Seattle, WA (Jul 2018 - Dec 2019)_
- Designed PyTorch (Python) project for class that used AWS S3, EC2, and SageMaker
- Evaluated computational models of the basal ganglia in Brian 2 and Nengo (Python)
- Ran 100 simulations on syllable sequencing at different dopamine levels for a study
# 📚 Education
## B.S. in Computer Engineering
_**Seattle University** (Sep 2017 - Jun 2021)_
[SU Courses](https://www.notion.so/SU-Courses-f64e2a5a62cc403cafe3bfc04944ddb3?pvs=21)
- Minored in Math and Physics with a cumulative GPA of 3.81
- Participated in extracurricular activities including ACM and Cyberhawks club
- Inducted to IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society (June 4, 2019) (Mu Iota chapter)
- Inducted Tau Beta Pi honor society (Mar 30, 2021) (WA Gamma chapter)
## Full Stack Web Development
_**DevLeague** (Nov 2016 - May 2017)_
- Immersed in 800+ hours of web dev experience with professional software devs
- Learned to quickly adapt, understand, and utilize various web technologies
- Worked in teams to complete various capstone projects with scrum and git-flow