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Kevin Gao

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Head of Platform Engineering at Sierra
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Kevin Gao is the Head of Platform Engineering at Sierra, leveraging his experience as a Senior Staff Engineer at both Slack and Quip. A Duke University engineering graduate, he specializes in building scalable, high-availability cloud platforms and has co-authored a patent in this area.

Kevin frequently expresses gratitude for his teams work, publicly celebrating their milestones and collaborative efforts. He emphasizes shipping reliability and performance as key customer-facing features, showing a deep commitment to both his team and the end-user experience.

He recently spoke at the Cloud Security Alliance’s first Agentic AI Security Summit, presenting on the topic of securing AI agents.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Head of Platform Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Securing AI Agents
Presented at the Cloud Security Alliance's Agentic AI Security Summit, demonstrating active thought leadership in the security implications of emerging AI technologies.
Platform Reliability
Holds a patent for high-availability architecture and publicly praises team members for focusing on shipping reliability and performance as customer features.
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Career

Work history

5-2023
Head of Platform Engineering
Sierra
7-2021 - 5-2023
Senior Staff Engineer
Slack
10-2020 - 5-2023
Senior Staff Engineer
Quip
1-2020 - 5-2023
Group Technical Lead
Quip
10-2019 - 10-2020
Software Engineering Architect
Quip
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Education
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Duke University
2005 - 2009
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Neuqua Valley High School
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