About

Zhao GAO is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with 8.86 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working at Instacart, where he leads the Instacart+ membership subscription service and membership exclusive discounts, experimenting on price elasticity to drive membership adoption and repeat purchases. Zhao's technical skills are impressive, with expertise in a range of programming languages, including Java, PHP, Python, and Javascript/ES6, as well as in testing tools such as JUnit, EasyMock, Hydra, Backstop.js, Mocha, Chai, and Behat. He is also proficient in web technologies such as HTML5/CSS3, Sass/Less, React/Vue.js, Twig, Bootstrap, Webpack/Grunt/Gulp.js, Babel, jQuery/jQuery UI/JSX, and has experience with various tools such as Apollo/Pipelines/BrazilCli/Octane/native AWS, Cloudformation, Coral, Hrizonte, Redshift (ETL), RDS, Cloudwatch, IAM/AuthMaster, Lambda, SageMaker, Jenkins, SQS/RabbitMQ, Intellij/PhpStorm/Sublime, PuTTY, Homebrew, and Drush. Prior to joining Instacart, Zhao worked as a Software Engineer at Hulu, where he was involved in subscription lifecycle management, and as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he worked on worldwide operations and forecasting. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the George Washington University. Zhao's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Javascript, SQL, AWS, Sagemaker, test, RabbitMQ, PHP, Jenkins, ETL, ui, Web, Python, and VueJS. He is a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering high-quality software solutions.