Bill Cao

My current role and first job out of college!

The summer after my senior year, I decided to give product management a try as an intern at Credit Karma. It was super rewarding to be trusted with the entire unauthenticated personal loan marketplace. It gave me a completely new perspective on tech, and I had a blast, especially given it was during covid.

For a few weeks, I worked on Data Engineering at Watershed Climate, a startup dedicated to helping companies cut carbon. I was actually the first non-founder to work on the product "full time"! It was rewarding, though that meant the learning curve was incredibly steep. Although I'm no longer working on it, I'm still really excited to watch it grow as tool in the fight against climate change.

I'm one of the 25 chosen to be a part of the 2020-2021 cohort of Accel Scholars! It has been an amazing community to be a part of and would highly recommend anyone into startups at Berkeley to apply. Really grateful to Amit Kumar for creating this amazing community, and I can't wait to get to know everyone in it better!

I worked on the E-Mission platform under the great Randy Katz, supervised by PhD student K. Shankari to help move the needle forward on how we think about sustainable travel behavior and technology. This was my first foray into research so I'm forever grateful to Shankari for taking a clueless freshman in (me!) and taking time to mentor me.

I wore many hats at BEACN, from consultant to project manager to vice president. I worked with the beyond coal campaign helping with analytics and data science. I've helped organize talks on transit!

I was a software engineering intern here summer 2019. I worked on Blend's moonshot blockchain project, finprint. It was incredibly rewarding working on such cutting edge technology. Had a blast with all the amazing people I met there (shoutout to my mentors Ken and Arjun). The best thing was, I felt like I was making a massive impact all while I was having all that fun.

From freshman to senior year, I was a part of the ASCE transportation engineering competition team. I worked mostly on models and operations even though I had zero civE or IEOR experience before joining. Happy to say in my time, we became the international champions!

Officer of the CSUA and former Outreach Co-Chair on the Exec Board. I joined this club very early my first semester, and I'm so glad I did. With the competition of CS clubs at cal, I'm glad CSUA is a bastion of inclusivity- it really made me feel part of the community. Check us out @ 311 Soda for tutoring and more!

My first internship summer 2018! I learned so much about not only CS but the plight that women (and men!) have in managing their breast health and how QT is really revolutionizing that space. It also got me thinking about user experience research which indirectly later led me to Watershed.

Drop an image, get it back as type. Dithers any picture into text, dots, or pixels, with a wave that ripples from your cursor. The skyline at the top of this page was made with it.

Guess which of two random US Street View locations has the higher median household income. A fresh round every day.

Calculate savings from arbitraging free IOPS and throughput when going multi-disk on EBS gp3, specifically by taking advantage of the free 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s baseline on each disk.

Only click if you are my friend Arun Kirubarajan.

How I got most of my jobs without referrals.

Using the Yelp API and the Wayback Machine to compare NYC restaurant and bar closing times today with what they were before covid, and map how much later places used to stay open.