Jeff Kao

Yeah, happy to be on this podcast.

So my name's Jeff, and I'm a principal engineer at Radar Labs.

We are an enterprise geolocation tech company.

So that's, you know, a variety of things, you know, spanning from maps and routing to search and geocoding and geofencing, as well as fraud detection.

And a bit more about myself, I've been programming for quite some time now.

I've worked at a variety of different startups.

I've been a freelancer before as well and even started my own small indie company a while ago.

But these days, most of my engineering focus, I would say, is largely on backend and data infrastructure engineering.

Yeah, so I would say, actually, it's kind of funny.

When I first graduated from university, I joined a company called Foursquare.

And I think at that time, it was maybe around the 2010s, where there were a lot of companies that were moving from Ruby.

Because Ruby on Rails, I think at the time was like...

And it still is, you know, but I think like it was almost like peak Ruby on Rails.

And then there's the peak migrating from Ruby on Rails to something more quote unquote scalable like companies like Twitter and like Foursquare and like SoundCloud.

So it's funny because I worked at two of those companies.

And so I've done a lot of work in Scala.

You know, in university, I prototyped and I was doing freelancing and then I used a lot of Ruby on Rails at that time.

And so, you know, a lot of like web technology is involved with that as well.

So I did a lot of JavaScript.

And even at that time, there wasn't TypeScript, but I think people were using CoffeeScript at that time.