Feng Qian
Co-Founder, CTO at Shiplight AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFeng Qian is a seasoned engineering leader and founding CTO with 23 years of experience building large-scale systems and developer-facing platforms, now leading Shiplight AI to make production-grade end-to-end test coverage effortless. He combines deep systems and browser expertise—having been a founding engineer on Chrome and a core V8 contributor—with product and platform leadership across Google, Facebook, and Airbnb. Feng has led teams spanning platform infrastructure, growth, and fraud detection, and brings a pragmatic bias for reliability driven by a recurring insight that quality is often the true bottleneck. A Google Founders' Award recipient and two-time ACM SIGPLAN Software Award winner, he pairs strong research pedigree (PhD work at McGill) with hands-on engineering across performance, testing, and AI agents. Based in the Bay Area, he now applies LLMs, RAG, and vector search to automate resilient testing at near-zero maintenance, aiming to replace flaky manual processes rather than just augment them.
23 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Nanjing UniversityPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (11)
virtual-machine9
bind8
virtualization8
java8
moshi8
operating-system7
android-library7
linux7
kotlin6
annotation-processor6
android5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
joekoolade/JOE
Jan 2003 - Feb 2005
JOE runs a Java program without an operating system and virtualizes the virtual machine
Contributions:50 commits in 2 years 1 month
operating-systemjavaoperatinglinuxjikesrvm
codehaus/mrp
Jan 2003 - Feb 2005
Contributions:52 commits in 2 years 1 month
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