Jeff Chao

Jeff Chao has extensive work experience in the technology industry. Jeff is currently serving as the Co-Founder & CTO at Abbey Labs, where they are responsible for developing a platform that automates and secures access to sensitive data. Prior to this, they worked at Stripe as a Staff Engineer, leading the Change Data Capture team and contributing to the Debezium Vitess Connector. Before that, they were a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix, where they worked on the Mantis open source project, focusing on stream processing applications. Jeff also worked at Heroku as a Lead Member of Technical Staff, leading the team in building and operating the Apache Kafka product. Jeff has prior experience at Salesforce, ExactTarget, Propeller Labs, the Rubicon Project, Mobsmith, and New Leaders, where they held various software engineering roles and contributed to developing innovative solutions for different companies and industries.

Jeff Chao attended the University of Nevada, Reno from 2005 to 2009, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Jeff later pursued further education at the same university, obtaining a Master of Science degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Network Security (trusted computing) from 2010 to 2011. Jeff Chao's education also includes participation in the Startup School program at Y Combinator, although specific dates and degrees obtained are not provided.