Lei Tian
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Tian is a software engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building scalable systems that blend web development, data engineering, and machine learning. He has held roles from research scientist at Stanford to senior engineer at SambaNova and currently contributes to Meta’s engineering efforts, bringing strong backend skills in Python, Java/C++, distributed data stores (Cassandra, HBase), and big-data tooling (Hadoop, Spark). Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs Flask/Jinja web work and JavaScript front-ends with production-ready databases (MySQL, Postgres, Mongo) and ML frameworks like PyTorch and scikit-learn. His academic background—an MS in CS and a PhD in Computational Biology—gives him a research-oriented approach to complex engineering problems and model-driven solutions. Notably, he moves fluidly between proof-of-concept research and hardened production systems, a skill honed through diverse roles spanning academia, AI hardware/software startups, and a major platform company.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information and Computational Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information and Computational Science at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology at University of Chinese Academy of SciencesMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
seq9
genomics8
single-cell-genomics8
bioinformatics8
rna-seq8
cran8
sequencing7
python-bindings7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Lei-Tian/multi-Organ-EC
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Lei-Tian/HLHS
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 11 months
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