About Me

I'm Frank Gao, a senior software engineer with deep experience across infrastructure, backend systems, and product engineering, thriving in fast-paced environments and translating product ideas and complex technology into real products.

Work Experience

• Snapchat · Snapchat Web

  04/2024 – present
  Software Engineer

  Ship end-to-end features for Snapchat's desktop web experience, including Bitmoji Plaza and the third-party Share Sheet, owning backend design and client architecture.

• Snapchat · My AI Backend

  01/2023 – 04/2024
  Software Engineer

  Architected Snapchat My AI's backend from the ground up, covering LLM orchestration, memory infrastructure, and multi-provider model routing at production scale.

• Snapchat · Messaging Backend

  08/2021 – 01/2023
  Software Engineer

  Built growth, abuse-prevention, and reliability infrastructure for Snapchat's messaging platform serving hundreds of millions of users.

• Microsoft · Azure Kubernetes Service

  04/2019 – 08/2021
  Software Engineer II

  Delivered core AKS capabilities including multi-node-pool support, decoupled node image upgrades, and end-to-end Azure Spot VM integration.

• Microsoft · Azure Key Vault

  06/2017 – 04/2019
  Software Engineer / SE II

  Owned the certificate inventory pipeline and expiration alerting service, dramatically cutting ingestion latency and bad-request rates.