About

Jethro Lai is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with over 14 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working at Carta as a Staff Software Engineer, where he is one of the founding members of the LLC team and a top contributor to the LLC project. He is responsible for designing the system architecture for initial development and experimenting with implementation patterns and best practices. Additionally, he provides mentorship to peer engineers. Prior to working at Carta, Jethro was the Founder of Lotto Intelligence, a static website that provides statistics on lottery numbers. He was also a Principal Software Engineer at Personal Capital, where he was the primary designer, developer, and owner of several services, including the Event Data Pipeline, Know Your Customer Service (REST API), Image Service (REST API), ACE, and Subscription Service. He established the first CloudFormation-based infrastructure as code development paradigm in a serverless fashion for cultivating the DevOps culture, resulting in a 23,500% performance improvement in the Event Data Pipeline. Jethro holds an MS in Telecommunication and Networking Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his pre-processed college name and alias. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Communication Engineering from Yuan-Ze University. Jethro's technical skills include Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, AWS, Spring Boot, Spring, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, design, Docker, Microservices, Salesforce, Integration, and infra. He is also a tech blog contributor for Personal Capital. Jethro is a highly motivated and dedicated individual with a passion for delivering high-quality work. He has a proven track record of success in designing and developing complex systems and services that are highly scalable, extensible, and reliable. He is an excellent team player and an effective communicator who can work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.