George Shao

Hi, I’m George.

Graduated from University of Waterloo Computer Science in 2026.

Work

Currently at Tesla

Previously

High-performance distributed storage systems powering Grok.

Full-stack engineering.

AI for enterprise accounting.

Payments infrastructure.

Graphics rendering library

Optimized memory management, achieving a 1500% FPS increase on low-end GPUs.

ML model checkpointing library

Improved performance by reducing client authentication overhead and integrating multipart uploads.

Google Photos alternative

Minor contributions.

I enjoy perfecting my matcha lattes and steaks, and sipping loose leaf tea.

I used to compete in a lot of hackathons, winning 11 out of ~30.