Ashley Gau

Experience

March 2021 – September 2025

Data Engineering & Internal Products December 2024 – September 2025

AI Analytics — Tech lead for Clever's first user-facing AI product, letting district admins and other non-technical users query their district's app usage data in plain English. AWS Bedrock, running Claude, translated each question into SQL and returned the relevant graphs and tables.

Sharing and APIs January 2022 – December 2024

Data Browser v3 — Wrote the product and technical specs for improving the data search tool district admins use to query their data. Improved SQL query efficiency and cut page load times by up to 80% compared to the original tool.
LMS Connect — Tech lead for the integration with LMS aggregator Ed.link, including weekly meetings and an on-site working session at their Austin, TX office. Reconciled student and teacher records between Clever and Ed.link.
DAC Mappings — Wrote the product spec for tooling that supports custom data modification on a per district-app connection basis.

GetClever March 2021 – January 2022

Monthly subscription platform of children's learning games for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade.

AAPI Employee Resource Group Lead

Invited speakers for AAPI Heritage Month and other events through the year, and hosted community events supporting Clever employees of AAPI heritage.

January 2018 – March 2021

Firebase Extensions February 2019 – March 2021
Launched the Firebase Extensions product at FireConf 2019 and built two of the initial offerings, Firestore Translate and Limit Database Entries. Shared 24/7 on-call for Firebase Hosting, Functions, and Extensions.
Google Kubernetes Engine, Networking January 2018 – February 2019
Enabled HTTP/2 and Network Endpoint Groups on Ingress GCE, built multi-cluster Ingress, and wrote unit and end-to-end tests for the Google cloudprovider library in the Kubernetes repository.

April 2017 – November 2017

Built new integrations with major US banks, including Fifth Third and Santander, using reverse-engineering techniques on a TypeScript and Node.js framework.
Added features across existing integrations and the API product, including A/B testing of two-factor authentication for one of the largest integrations.

August 2016 – January 2017 (laid off)

Full-stack developer on Organization Design, the team responsible for shaping Medium's internal culture and practices by building and using its own internal tools.
Built tools for meetings, documentation, HR, and culture initiatives in Go and JavaScript (React, Flow) on Noms DB, deployed to AWS.

August 2014 – August 2016 · San Francisco, CA

Full-stack developer on the Web Engineering team, focused on Lumosity's training algorithms and its science platform, the NeuroCognitive Performance Test. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SASS, HAML, SQL.
Paired with a senior developer to build a Rails API server from scratch for a mobile spin-off of Lumosity, fetching data and handling OAuth2 against the main Rails application. Deployed to AWS with Docker.
Used monitoring tools (Sumo Logic, Rollbar, StatsD) and CI (Solano CI, Travis) to track error rates and respond quickly to site problems.

May 2014 – August 2014 · San Francisco, CA

Full-stack developer on the Rails Intern Team, working on the Human Cognition Project. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SASS, HAML, SQL.
Built a Ruby on Rails application from scratch as a blogging platform for Lumosity's in-house research team to publish and update articles about the Human Cognition Project.
Worked with the Analytics and DevOps teams to track page view events and run deployments to staging and production, following test-driven development and Agile practices.

January 2013 – May 2013 · Emeryville, CA

Planned, documented, estimated, automated, and executed functional, regression, and performance tests in Ruby with Cucumber on Blackbaud's extended WATIR-Webdriver framework.
Built an app in Salesforce Apex with another intern and two mentors that interfaced with Wealthfront's API and Blackbaud's internal APIs.
Built the frontend for an employee timesheet application backed by Django.

December 2014

B.A. Computer Science · B.A. Cognitive Science

Languages & frameworks Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python

Platforms & tools AWS, Google Cloud, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot

Spoken languages Mandarin Chinese (fluent), Japanese (fluent), Korean (basic), Spanish (basic)