About

Steven Dao is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer currently working at LinkedIn, where he is responsible for (re-)building and leading engineering efforts in data quality for all ingested jobs. He is also involved in building the data pipelines for LinkedIn's jobs. Steven has been with LinkedIn for a while now and has conducted over 70 interviews for various positions such as Intern, SWE, Sr. SWE, and Staff positions at the company. Before his current role, Steven worked as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where he was involved in building an Abuse scoring platform to detect malicious behavior on the platform. He also developed systems to defend against web scraping from logged-in and non-logged-in users. Steven has also designed and developed distributed systems to handle massive scale and high volume attacks. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Steven worked as a Software Engineer at JP Morgan, where he worked on the development of a distributed RESTful API for managing financial trading limits within the firm. He has experience working with various technologies such as Python, Java, and web infrastructure. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science from the University of Houston. He also attended Kerr High School. With over 8.54 years of relevant experience, Steven is a skilled Software Engineer with expertise in web infrastructure, Python, Java, and other relevant technologies.