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James Kao

Software Engineer

James Kao is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in various technology roles across multiple prominent companies. At TikTok, James focused on content growth, creator growth strategies, and content ecosystem feed quality from July 2022 to April 2025. Prior to TikTok, James worked at Square, contributing to cloud foundations for Square Capital, and at AWS, where responsibilities included developing frameworks for Elastic Load Balancing. Currently, James serves as a software engineer at Meta, with a focus on MRS. Other significant experiences include a data scientist role at Peritus.ai, founding engineer at Motion AI, and a software development engineer position at IMDb. James's educational background includes advanced degrees in computer science and machine learning from Georgia Institute of Technology and nanodegrees in machine learning and deep learning from Udacity.

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