Hao Mao
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorHao Mao is a tech lead manager based in Mountain View with 10 years of experience building production-grade infrastructure and payments systems, most recently launching an LLM consumption billing and build application infrastructure team at Glean. Previously he led Move Money and metrics platforms at Coinbase and drove platform work on LinkedIn’s Python Foundation and PaaS teams, demonstrating a strong backend and cloud-native systems pedigree. He combines hands-on engineering—improving build tooling and caching strategies in open-source projects like pygradle—with people leadership across cross-functional teams. Hao also teaches AI and cloud computing topics, reflecting a habit of turning practical systems knowledge into curriculum and mentorship. Known for optimizing build and cache workflows, he brings a pragmatic focus on efficiency, observability, and production reliability to large-scale distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
caching10
gradlew10
python-packaging10
python10
package-management10
build-automation10
gradle10
groovy8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/pygradle
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Using Gradle to build Python projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Hao primarily contributed to the `pygradle` project by enhancing the package settings API and implementing layered caching for wheels. They added functionality to support `isCustomized` checking to avoid rebuilding already built packages. Key improvements involved adapting tasks to utilize the `requiresSourceBuild` and `isCustomized` flags, and supporting different cache layers settings. These changes indicate a focus on optimizing build processes and caching strategies within the Python project's Gradle build system.
gradlepythonlinkedin
mhbkb/cs229-project
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:50 commits in 1 month
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