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7d8e8c1*feat(homelight): Agentic AI Engineer
Author: Eric KaoDate: Oct 2024 - Present@ HomeLight

HomeLight is a real estate technology platform. I build agentic AI workflows and full-stack systems that automate complex transaction processes across closings, mortgages, and consumer experiences.

  • Designed and implemented LangChain workflows to automate complex, multi-step processes, reducing hours of manual work across multiple teams
  • Building EVA, an AI agent that automates real estate closings
  • Architected automation pipelines that reduced ops & marketing workflows from hours to seconds
  • Designed webhook-based services connecting MeridianLink transactions to automated county records
  • Developed Jootie, enabling bulk updates across dozens of order fields in seconds for finance operations
  • Technical owner of v0, leading onboarding and enablement for engineers and non-engineers to build and deploy full-stack applications
  • Led full-stack projects (Ruby on Rails, React) from PRD ideation to connect quiz leads with top agents via A/B testing
  • Built services and integrations for the Buy Before You Sell (BBYS) program, enabling clients to purchase their next home before selling their current one
  • Led front-end and design guild in standardizing design components and style guides
6b96b50*feat(kaodev): Founder
Author: Eric KaoDate: March 2023 - Present@ KaoDev

I engineer AI-powered solutions and web applications for business owners and growing companies.

  • Work with emerging VC firm Theory Ventures in the Bay Area on portfolio site and to expand their online presence
  • Develop Demo and Tutorial experience for a16z backed startup Rye, including the checkout experience for cart
  • Content creation including problem creation, solutions, and test cases for engineering learning platform GreatFrontEnd
  • Create scheduling and reservation system for Wilson Park Ceramics
538fe8b*feat(magiceden): Senior Software Engineer
Author: Eric KaoDate: June 2023 - Dec 2023@ Magic Eden

Magic Eden is the premier NFT marketplace and self-custody crypto wallet for users to discover, trade, and create NFTs across multiple blockchains.

  • Maintained, developed, and deprecated components in UI library as part of the UI Infrastucture team
  • Redesigned core Solana Marketplace and Profile pages, and MagicEden Bitcoin to enhance UX and interface consistency
  • Developed new MagicEden homepage as part of company rebrand and redesign using NextJS and Zustand
646ae50*feat(notion): Web Developer, Contract
Author: Eric KaoDate: May 2023 - Oct 2023@ Notion

Notion is a note-taking and collaboration application for tasks, wikis, and databases.

  • Designed A/B testing experiments for most trafficked pages including Notion.so and Notion AI
  • Conducted Statsig experiments to optimize metrics conversion and bounce rates across all locales
  • Collaborated with designer to build multiple versions of UI variants to optimize landing pages
  • Create workflow for designers, project managers, engineers, and QA to follow for proper A/B testing from ideation, design review, development, QA, and to production
76b757a*feat(proxychat): Founding Engineer
Author: Eric KaoDate: March 2022 - Feb 2023@ Proxychat

Proxychat is social for web3. As a founding frontend engineer, I built our application to help engage and grow web3 communities.

  • Developed Web3 platform on Next.js to decentralize decision making for DAOs and NFT communities
  • Engineered content feed, posting flow, community management, user settings, and key chat features with Redux
  • Built voting and governance tools including upvoting, reactions, threads, and grant submissions
  • Architected responsive design views for mobile and desktop compatibility w/ Tailwind, React, CSS
4afc5e7*feat(enjoy): Senior Software Engineer
Author: Eric KaoDate: Sep 2017 - Aug 2022@ Enjoy

Enjoy is reinventing "Commerce at Home" to bring the store directly to customers. I created applications to manage performance, revenue, and shift schedules of over 1000 employees across 40+ markets.

  • Created mobile-first employee performance and compensation applications with React, Apollo, & GraphQL
  • Built internal scheduling tools to manage 1k+ employees in 50 different markets in US, UK, and CA
  • Develop gamification and reward initiatives- improving key employee performance over 20% across multiple quarters
  • Built internal tools to manage 1k+ employees and 50+ markets (US, UK, & Canada)
1a7880c*feat(irrelevants): Cofounder
Author: Eric KaoDate: Sep 2021 - Dec 2021@ Artificial Irrelevants

Artificial Irrelevants is a collection of 4848 Robot NFTs built on the Solana blockchain. I built the interface to allow users to connect their wallet to mint NFTs and the Rarity Tool.

  • Launched NFT platform (b2c) on the Solana blockchain, raising $750k+ profit in 1 month
  • Built client interface to connect user wallets for mint and purchase of NFTs w/ Web3 smart contracts
  • Optimized system and used code splitting to allow scaling of up to 3k users internationally
  • Engineered UI Rarity Tool for calculating statistical rarity and to determine product rankings
5f20aeb*feat(edcast): Frontend Software Engineer
Author: Eric KaoDate: Jan 2016 - Aug 2017@ EdCast (acquired by Cornerstone)

EdCast offers a unified talent & learning experience platform (LXP) for the end-to-end employee journeys spanning learning & career mobility.

  • Developed features for learning platform- including pathways for skills certification and employer assigned learning
  • Created software development kit to improve feature development lifecycle
  • Revamped site to a Single Page Application with React & Redux
5b6ac35*feat(shutterfly): Web Developer
Author: Eric KaoDate: Feb 2013 - Sep 2014@ Shutterfly

Web developer for CafePress- Shutterfly's online retailer of stock and user-customized on-demand products.

  • Increased SEO web traffic 30% year over year, and revenue by 20% year over year- by managing web metadata, search engine keyword rankings, and link building
  • Developed Specialized Landing Pages, unique content for users, and Javascript widgets for high ranking keywords
  • Managed Product Taxonomy of 50+ trending, seasonal, and popular categories
  • Implemented rich snippets like ratings, Product Videos, Breadcrumbs, & Authorships
contact — interactive session● LIVE
eric@kao-dev ~ % init contact_session
channel open — type `help` for commands, `contact` to reach out, or `form` for a classic form.
eric@kao-dev ~ %