Sophie Gao

Sophie Gao is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Coursera, with a strong background in software engineering and development. Previously, Sophie worked at Capital One from 2017 to 2022, holding various roles where responsibilities included designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for over 10,000 developers and leading the development of a custom AWS S3 tooling solution for compliance management of over 7,500 S3 buckets. Early career experience comprises positions as a Software Engineer at Capital One and Extreme Networks, as well as a role as an EDA/CAD Engineer at Upverter. Sophie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, obtained in 2018.