Dennis Cao is a software engineer located in the Los Angeles area. Prior to joining the Concord Consortium, he worked professionally as an electronics engineer, audio software programmer, sound designer, and music producer. Some of his programs have been used to automate audio workflows and even to create sounds on a Grammy Award winning record. He is very excited to help the next generation of students learn STEM. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Digital Signal Processing focus. In his free time he enjoys producing electronic music, tinkering with and building synthesizers, coding in Max/MSP, and learning new things on YouTube.