I'm a Systems Design Engineering student at the University of Waterloo whos enjoys building solutions to everyday problems! I am interested in building high performant distributed systems.

• SWE Intern @ Snowflake in Bellevue, WA, where I am working on ingress load balancing for Snowflake's multi-cloud environments! ❄️
• Prev. SWE Intern @ Datadog in NYC, architecting distributed caching and streaming observability pipelines
• Prev. SWE Intern @ Newfront (YC18) in SF, building a RAG chatbot! 🤖
• Researching synchronization techniques and locks for persistent memory as a URA @ UWaterloo
• Building tech for social good @ UW Blueprint 🛠️

• Traffic routing and edge engineering
• Distributed and performant Go systems

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anniecai2004
Email: ajcai@uwaterloo.ca