I’m a senior full-stack engineer with over 10 years of experience building fast, reliable, user-facing products at scale. I’ve worked on real-time collaboration systems at Zoom and AI-powered platforms at Quora, focusing on web performance, intuitive UX, and shipping high-impact features quickly. I enjoy working closely with product and design, making pragmatic technical decisions, and building tools that people rely on every day.

Edward Bai

I’m a senior full-stack engineer with over 10 years of experience building fast, reliable, user-facing products at scale. I’ve worked on real-time collaboration systems at Zoom and AI-powered platforms at Quora, focusing on web performance, intuitive UX, and shipping high-impact features quickly. I enjoy working closely with product and design, making pragmatic technical decisions, and building tools that people rely on every day.

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I’m a senior full-stack engineer with over 10 years of experience building fast, reliable, user-facing products at scale. I’ve worked on real-time collaboration systems at Zoom and AI-powered platforms at Quora, focusing on web performance, intuitive UX, and shipping high-impact features quickly. I enjoy working closely with product and design, making pragmatic technical decisions, and building tools that people rely on every day.

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Work Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Quora (Poe)
January 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025
Drove Poe's evolution from a single chatbot into a scalable AI app ecosystem by launching interactive user experiences, enabling multi-provider AI orchestration. Designed a unified API to support multiple AI models across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and custom providers; led the development of an AI model SDK; deployed a high-throughput model routing layer on Kubernetes; built AWS-based event-driven backend workflows; implemented end-to-end observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana; mentored engineers.
Full-Stack Software Engineer at Zoom Video Communications
April 1, 2018 - December 1, 2022
Built Zoom Whiteboard with distributed real-time collaboration, enabling low-latency, multi-user editing and consistent state across globally distributed users. Implemented collaborative drawing UI with React and Canvas; real-time sync via WebSocket through AWS API Gateway and a distributed event system. Designed a scalable CRDT-based state-sync pipeline coordinated via Kafka and NATS, with backend services in Java and Django (Python). Used Redis for session coordination and stored versioned boards in S3 with DynamoDB metadata. Orchestrated background tasks with AWS Step Functions and Docker; established observability.
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
January 1, 2014 - March 1, 2018
Contributed to CloudWatch observability platform by building distributed telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and alarms across millions of workloads. Built high-throughput ingestion using Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, EC2 autoscaling; improved alarm evaluation logic for lower latency and multi-metric detection. Developed monitoring agents and SDKs in C#, Java, and Python, enhancing metric reliability and cross-region resilience using SNS, SQS, IAM, and replication workflows.
Software Engineering Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
May 1, 2012 - August 1, 2012
Software Engineering Intern. Supported CloudWatch telemetry pipelines, log processing, and metrics ingestion; contributed to internal tooling and distributed systems initiatives.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2013

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Software & Internet

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