Kai Zhao

Software Development Manager @ Amazon

About

Established, hands-on software engineering veteran, drove the life cycle of numerous software development projects, and launched notable products across web, mobile, and gaming platforms with millions of users. Some of the proud accomplishments include: the leading open-source game engine and toolset, an award-winning print-on-demand website and iPhone app, and a popular social translation community. With extensive experiences during 20 years, I’ve held various technical and managerial roles at SDKBOX, Chukong, Keepsy, and AOL. Specialties: web & mobile software development and management, game tech, data analytics, scalable distributed system, user acquisition

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Scalability, Distributed Systems, Mobile Applications, System Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Web Applications, Software Engineering, Agile Project Management, Game Development, Project Management, Perl, Cocos2d

Experience

Software Development Manager

Amazon

2020 - Present · 6 yrs

Founder

SDKBOX Inc.

2016 - 2020 · 4 yrs

Palo Alto, California

Operate at all levels from product road-maps, to architecture, design and implementation details. Solve the SDK FATIGUE -- rapidly integrate live operations and mobile backend SDKs with free & certified plugins, installed on over 1 billion mobile devices worldwide. Acquired by Xiamen Yaji Software Co., Ltd

VP Engineering

CocoaChina/Chukong Technologies 触控科技

2013 - 2016 · 3 yrs

menlo park, california

Expanded product and technology development of the leading open source mobile game engine - Cocos2d-x, adopted by over one million game developers globally. Launched and pushed the live operation of various mobile games with multi-million-dollar selling in the western markets.

CTO

Keepsy

2009 - 2013 · 4 yrs

Developed the first ever iOS app "Keepsy" enabling printed photo books and calendars, a top-free "Time Warp Camera" app, and the popular StoryJumper.com for creating children books. Acqui-hired by Facebook.