Jiyuan Qian
Staff Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJiyuan Qian is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable systems and shipping production-quality software at Facebook. He blends a strong academic foundation in statistics and data science (NYU MS with a 3.975 GPA) with hands-on backend and QA work, exemplified by contributions to an unofficial Zhihu Python3 API where he focused on bug fixes and comprehensive testing. His background spans research and applied data science roles at NYU and Text IQ and early finance exposure, giving him a rare mix of rigorous analytical skills and practical engineering. Known for attention to reliability and testability, he brings both product-minded engineering and research-informed problem solving to large-scale projects.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Statistics, Exchange Student, Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Master’s Degree, Data Science, 3.975/4, Master’s Degree, Data Science, 3.975/4 at NYU Center for Data SciencePreparatory Year, Science, Preparatory Year, Science at Zhejiang University
chinese-mandarin, English, chinese-cantonese, Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
beautifulsoup10
html-parsing10
python10
testing10
apidoc9
webscraping9
api9
http-request8
lxml8
github-repos7
git-repository7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
7sDream/zhihu-py3
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
[不再维护] Zhihu UNOFFICIAL API library in python3, with help of bs4, lxml, requests and html2text.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jiyuan primarily focused on improving the `zhihu-py3` library, which is a Python 3 unofficial API for Zhihu. Contributions included fixing bugs related to answer content processing and adding tests for various components, such as questions, collections, and activities. The user demonstrated a focus on ensuring the library's functionality and reliability through comprehensive testing.
apipythonbs4unofficial-apizhihu
yjxiao/tag-extraction
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 6 PRs, 64 pushes in 23 days
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