Chuanqi Shen
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolChuanqi Shen is a Staff Software Engineer in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building large-scale, safety-critical systems at Waymo and Google. He leads simulation and sim-realism efforts, integrating foundational world models and sampling-based evaluation pipelines to produce trustworthy estimates of rare events, and previously modernized agent stacks to boost realism by 20%. At Google he architected event-driven, configuration-first payment and accounting systems that scaled to billions of monthly transactions and cut month-close time from days to hours. Comfortable across distributed systems, model evaluation, and synthetic scenario generation, he combines research instincts from Stanford with pragmatic engineering that ships in production. Notably, he translates advanced probabilistic and model-based approaches into unified pipelines that operationalize safety metrics for autonomous vehicles.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Raffles Diploma, Raffles Diploma at Raffles InstitutionBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Russian, HakkaGithub contributions (4)
icaswell/loopy_CNNs
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes in 26 days
simp1eton/CS224W_Final_Project
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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