Michael Qiu
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Qiu is a Senior Software Engineer with ~9 years of experience, currently shaping data infrastructure at Robinhood in San Francisco. He previously led Discord’s move from an in-house data orchestrator to a modern platform using Dagster and dbt, optimizing 2,000+ data models, cutting processing times by 50% and saving over $3M per year in BigQuery costs, while delivering reliable data quality. He also established Discord’s first Kafka cluster for real-time telemetry, migrating from Pub/Sub and setting KPIs and monitoring to ensure resilience. Earlier at Capital One, he built an Akka-based real-time ML workflow framework and a Scala-based streaming layer on Confluent, plus data lineage visualization and Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines. He holds an MS in Computer Science - Interactive Intelligence from Georgia Tech and a BS in Computer Engineering from UIUC, reflecting a strong foundation in both theory and practical engineering. Based in the SF Bay Area, he combines hands-on software development with scalable data architectures to ship high-impact systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science - Interactive Intelligence, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science - Interactive Intelligence at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cupertino High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (52)
graphs9
linked-data9
connected-components9
rest-api8
metadata8
graph8
blocking8
non-blocking7
circe7
cayley7
spark7
scala7
dataframe7
graph-database7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikals0ft/escape-room-bot
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 days
hgandhi001/ground
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:24 PRs, 42 pushes, 7 branches in 19 days
data-contextvendorcontext-service
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