Summary
Christopher Qian is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable web applications and data pipelines, currently contributing at Ramp after impactful roles at Coda and Atlassian. He combines front-end expertise in React/TypeScript with backend systems in Java, Python, and C#, and has hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Terraform, and analytics stacks like Snowflake and Airflow. At Coda he led a team to boost third-party integration discoverability—migrating search to OpenSearch and driving a 50% increase in installations—while also tripling dashboard engagement through end-to-end feature work. His background includes architecting serverless event processors that handle 10k+ events/sec and improving reliability SLOs on high-volume messaging platforms, demonstrating both performance and operational focus. A UC Berkeley CS graduate based in Los Angeles, he’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and shipping product-facing features that measurably move business metrics.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley