Anson Qian
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnson Qian is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years building and operating cloud-native, highly reliable distributed systems across Microsoft, Pinterest, Airbnb, Uber, and AWS. He specializes in service discovery, orchestration, and platform reliability—work that spans Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Fabric, EC2 WorkSpaces, and service mesh/registration systems like Airbnb’s Smartstack. Anson has a strong backend and DevOps pedigree demonstrated by contributions to prominent open-source projects such as airbnb/synapse and nerve, where he improved resilience through metrics, retry logic, and Zookeeper stability fixes. He combines production-grade engineering with a platform mindset, focusing on observability, failure handling, and scalable design. Educated in computer engineering (Texas A&M) with a bachelors from Zhejiang University, he brings both rigorous systems knowledge and practical operational experience. Colleagues rely on him for quietly strengthening critical paths—improving stability and recoverability often before outages surface.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor's degree Automation, Bachelor's degree Automation at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
monitoring10
monitor10
configuration-management10
zookeeper10
base64-encoding10
metric10
retrying9
retry-logic9
retry-policy9
retry-pattern9
haproxy9
mechanism9
test-integration8
integration-testing8
unit-test8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/nerve
May 2019 - Oct 2019
A service registration daemon that performs health checks; companion to airbnb/synapse
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Anson primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `nerve` service, which involves service registration and health checks. Their work included handling Zookeeper connection errors, fixing typos, and bumping up the version. The user also added features for load testing and implemented path encoding functionalities for Zookeeper, demonstrating a focus on reliability, stability, and improved efficiency.
airbnbdaemonhealthregistrationservice-registration
airbnb/synapse
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
A transparent service discovery framework for connecting an SOA
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 38 PRs, 73 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anson primarily focused on improving the resilience and stability of the Synapse service. Their contributions involved adding metrics and counters to track success and failure rates for critical operations, such as configuration updates and HAProxy reloads. They also implemented retry logic for Zookeeper calls and addressed potential issues related to Zookeeper client reconnects, ensuring the service's continued operation during network disruptions or server restarts. Furthermore, the user improved the Zookeeper watcher and optimized path encoding, including the use of Base64 encoding for child names, and introduced load test options.
soatransparentservice-discoverydiscovery
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