Qi He
Co-Founder CEO at Smiley Science Lab Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolQi He is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud- and data-driven products that help local businesses automate customer engagement and marketing. As co-founder and CEO of multiple startups including Smiley Science Lab and Alvis Science, he combines hands-on engineering with product leadership to turn customer workflows into scalable SaaS solutions. A UCLA MS in Computer Science, he cut his teeth on mission-critical systems at ARINC and contributes to open-source authentication tooling—adding OAuth strategies to the widely used OmniAuth library for Chinese social platforms. Based in Los Angeles, Qi blends pragmatic full-stack development with entrepreneurial grit, often prioritizing rapid prototyping and customer feedback to iterate product-market fit. He brings a rare mix of backend integration expertise and real-world startup execution across both US and Chinese tech ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Chengdu Experimental Foreign Language SchoolHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Mark Keppel High SchoolUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, Irvine
Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
apidoc10
oauth10
omniauth10
ruby10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
omniauth/omniauth
Dec 2010 - May 2011
OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Qi primarily focused on adding and updating authentication strategies for the OmniAuth library. Their work involved integrating with various social media platforms, particularly Sina Weibo, NetEase 163, Sohu, and Tencent QQ. The commits demonstrate the creation and modification of OAuth strategies, including API integration, user data retrieval, and various debugging efforts.
authentication-systemrack-middlewarerailsauthenticationomniauth
he9qi/ember-cli-hellosign
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
HelloSign for Ember
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 8 months
emberjsember-addonhellosignember
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