Summary
Douglas Qian is a founding-team technologist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building AI-native, cloud-first systems that bridge research and real-world infrastructure. He co-founded and served as CTO of Streamline, where his AI tools helped organizations secure over $100M in public funding, and now works on AI-driven GIS solutions for critical infrastructure. His background spans applied ML research at Google, scalable serverless engineering at Clumio, and launching founder accelerators at CMU, reflecting a mix of product, technical leadership, and community-building. Notably, he combines hands-on system design—shipping high-throughput inventory and backup analytics services—with deep domain experience in grant automation and public-sector workflows. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable moving between prototype research and production-grade systems, and maintains a public portfolio at douglasqian.com highlighting his cross-cutting work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fellow, Fellow at Leaders In Tech
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Choate Rosemary Hall
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University