Jianqiang Shen
Director Of Engineering at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJianqiang Shen is a Director of Engineering based in California with 10 years of experience leading ML-driven product and data teams to improve job matching and hiring efficiency at scale. He has progressed through leadership roles at LinkedIn, shaping AI-powered search, recommendation, and marketplace optimization products like Semantic Job Search and Career Coach. His background blends deep research (Ph.D. in computer science) with applied systems work across advertising, contextual intelligence, and intelligent desktop assistants, giving him a strong foundation in both modeling innovation and production engineering. Jianqiang has a track record of building foundational data and model-system co-design capabilities that unlock leverage across multiple product lines. He also brings domain breadth from bioinformatics and agricultural informatics interests on GitHub, reflecting curiosity beyond core ads/jobs applications. Known for translating long-term research into scalable, measurable product impact, he thrives at the intersection of algorithmic rigor and pragmatic delivery.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.E. computer science, M.E. computer science at Nanjing UniversityPh.D. computer science, Ph.D. computer science at Oregon State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
journal7
open-access7
academia6
bioconductor5
creative-commons5
bioinformatics4
adapter4
r-package2
python1
r1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
biunit/PyDAIR
May 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:39 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
jsun/suppl
Sep 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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