Lin Qiao
CEO And Cofounder at Fireworks AI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLin Qiao is a veteran technology leader and founder with 11 years in senior engineering and product leadership roles and a research background spanning IBM to LinkedIn. As CEO and cofounder of Fireworks AI after leading PyTorch and AI frameworks as Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, she combines deep systems, compiler, and platform expertise with startup execution. She has led engineering organizations of 300+ engineers, driven large-scale deployments of PyTorch across billions of devices, and built foundational data serving and warehouse infrastructure at LinkedIn and Facebook. Her academic pedigree (PhD in Computer Science) and early work on high-performance, columnar analytics at IBM underpin a career focused on performance, scalability, and developer productivity. Known for translating research into production-grade systems, she’s equally comfortable driving strategy, hiring talent, and shipping developer platforms. Based in the United States, she’s now channeling that product and platform experience into building AI tooling and a team at Fireworks AI.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS MS Computer Science, BS MS Computer Science at Fudan UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English
Github Skills (18)
replication9
aerospike9
batch8
management8
streaming8
apache8
partitioning8
dcos8
lifecycle8
data-stream7
spark7
kafka7
data-ingestion6
stream-processing6
apache-flink6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
lqiao/gobblin-1
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
apache/gobblin
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
A distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication, organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data ecosystems.
Contributions:1 commit, 4 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
datadcosdata-streambig-data-integrationbatch-data
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