Celestine Kao
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCelestine Kao is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building and scaling SaaS products from day zero through commercialization and growth. At Stripe she focuses on migrations, rearchitecting, and improving developer ergonomics, and previously led full-stack platform work at Hex and Narrative Science including zero-downtime ETL migrations and seat-based billing integrations. Comfortable across infra, backend, frontend, and testing, she’s introduced CI/E2E harnesses, developer tooling, and content-first docs practices that tightened feedback loops and launch velocity. She’s also led GTM engineering work and content strategy at WorkOS, blending technical delivery with product and marketing execution. Known for quietly improving team productivity (githooks, linting, test parallelization) and mentoring junior engineers, she combines systems-level thinking with practical ship-it instincts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (51)
okta10
azure-active-directory10
dax10
adfs9
sdk9
python-sdk9
backend9
database-driver8
scim8
circleci8
saml8
microsoft-azure7
onelogin7
gherkin7
sso-authentication7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NarrativeScience-old/circleci-orb-ghpr
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Orb containing `git` utilities to manage GitHub Pull Requests in CircleCI
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 10 commits in 8 months
circlecicircleci-orbspull-requests
UIllinoisOrigami/OrigamiGo
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:72 commits in 5 months
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