Chao Qian
Technical Lead - Principal Tech Lead at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Qian is a machine learning engineer and technical lead with nine years of experience building large-scale AI and cloud infrastructure across Microsoft and Adobe in the Greater Seattle area. He has driven core Azure ML and Azure OpenAI initiatives—authoring the first AutoML orchestration service, enabling parallel remote runs, and implementing model fine-tuning, distillation, and multi-LoRA inference for production-grade model serving. Comfortable across the stack, his background spans ML research, optimization algorithms for Amazon fulfillment, and full‑stack enterprise apps at Oracle, giving him a rare blend of systems design, applied ML, and operational rigor. He pairs hands-on engineering with product sensibility, having cut service dependency calls by over 84% through architecture improvements, and he brings a practical coaching mindset evidenced by youth soccer leadership outside of work.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Brown UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Southeast University
Chinese
Github Skills (26)
azure-machine-learning10
azure10
data-science9
notebook9
machine-learning9
sdk8
ml8
deep-learning7
windows-forms6
bus6
python6
microsoft6
azure-service-bus5
tensorflow5
notification5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chaoqian/smurf-queue
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
Azure/azureml-assets
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:21 reviews, 31 PRs, 30 pushes in 7 months
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