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John Lai Location
San Francisco, CA, US
John Lai Work
Director of Engineering @ (October 2025 - Present)
Engineering Manager @ (August 2021 - October 2025)
Software Engineer @ (April 2021 - August 2021)
Senior Engineering Manager @ Dropbox (February 2019 - March 2021)
Staff Software Engineer @ Dropbox (June 2013 - February 2019)
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science @ (September 2009 - May 2013)
Software Engineer @ (August 2005 - September 2009)
John Lai Education
Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Computer Science)
2009-2013
Harvard University
AB (summa cum laude) (Computer Science and Mathematics)
2001-2005
John Lai Skills
Algorithms
Analysis
C++
Computer Science
Distributed Systems
Java
Machine Learning
Mathematical Modeling
Python
R
Software Engineering
Statistics
John Lai Summary
John Lai, based in San Francisco, CA, US, is currently a Director of Engineering at Figma. John Lai brings experience from previous roles at Figma and Dropbox. John Lai holds a 2009 - 2013 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science @ Harvard University. With a robust skill set that includes Algorithms, Analysis, C++, Computer Science, Distributed Systems and more. John Lai has 2 emails and 3 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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