Peter Gao

on sabbatical

Co-founder

Aquarium Learning· Summer 2020 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @pgaooo

2025Career Break

Founder · since 2020

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Aquarium Learning

We help ML teams improve their models by improving their datasets

Summer 2020

Experience

Career

Career Break
San Francisco, California · 2025 – Present
2025
Career Break
San Francisco, California · 2025 – Present
2025
Aquarium Learning
Co-founder
Cofounder, CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2025
2020
Recurse Center
Recurser · Greater New York City Area · 2019
2019
Cruise Automation
Staff Software Engineer, Perception Tech Lead · San Francisco, California · 2017 – 2019
2017
Cruise Automation
Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2017
2016
Cruise Automation
Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2016
2015
UC Berkeley
CS 189 Teaching Assistant · Berkeley, California · 2015
2015
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Researcher · Berkeley, California · 2015
2015
Khan Academy
Software Engineering Intern · Mountain View, California · 2014
2014
Pinterest
Software Engineering Pintern · San Francisco, California · 2013
2013
UC Berkeley
CS 61A Lab Assistant · Berkeley, California · 2013
2013
RewardMe
Code Monkey Intern · Mountain View, CA · 2012
2012
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Intern · Moffet Field, Mountain View, California · 2011
2011
Harker Robotics
Executive President · 2007 – 2011
2007
Hunter Laboratories
Research Intern · Campbell, California · 2010
2010

Bio

Peter was an early employee (#18) at Cruise, where he built a large part of a self driving car from scratch. Before that, Peter did research on deep learning at UC Berkeley. Before that, he interned at Pinterest and Khan Academy, doing a mix of ML and web work. Now cofounder at Aquarium!