David Qian
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Qian is a software engineer specializing in ML-driven recommendations, with over 10 years of experience building scalable systems. He currently leads state-of-the-art retrieval and GPU-accelerated recommendation infrastructure as a Software Engineer, RecSys at Meta, supporting Facebook Verticals such as Marketplace, Dating, and Gaming. As a technical leader, he designs and optimizes large-scale retrieval and indexing pipelines and drives ML-system co-design for performance. His career spans roles at Facebook Data.AI, Airbnb ML Infra, Salesforce, BlackBerry, SAP, and more, delivering robust ML infrastructure and production-ready pipelines. He earned a BSE with Distinction from the University of Waterloo and holds an IB Diploma with a 43/45, reflecting a strong academic foundation. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on engineering with a clear eye on business impact to ship reliable, scalable recommendation systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (56)
todoist10
coc-nvim10
neovim-plugin10
python9
language-server-protocol9
vim-plugin9
vscode-extension9
machine-learning9
gpu9
vim9
nodejs9
lua9
vscode9
neovim9
nvim9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dqian96/coding-practice
Mar 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:111 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
dqian96/distl
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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