Owen Qian
Software Engineer at DoorDash
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Qian is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on storage infrastructure at DoorDash. He has engineered production-grade data platforms at Google, Apple, and Cockroach Labs, working across Cassandra, Kafka, CRDB, and C++/Java/Go stacks to improve performance, orchestration, and reliability. His background includes optimizing Raft snapshotting and disk I/O, automating cluster upgrades, and designing high-throughput services that served hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Comfortable in both systems and infra-level work, he combines deep implementation skill with practical automation to reduce operational toil. Based in New York and trained at the University of Waterloo, he brings a blend of research-caliber problem solving and hands-on shipping experience.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (14)
distributed-systems10
go10
postgresql10
cloud-native10
cockroachdb10
distributed-database10
sql10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
kubernetes9
circular-dependencies6
polymorphism6
inheritance6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OwenQian/Phil-Ivy
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 124 pushes, 23 branches in 11 months
OwenQian/vimfiles
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:22 pushes in 6 years
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