Summary
Qi M is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with seven years of experience building large-scale ML and data systems, currently at Amazon and a founding contributor to Rufus focused on LLM inference. With an MS from UC San Diego and a background spanning electrical engineering and applied research, Qi bridges hardware-aware engineering and production ML stacks. At Amazon they progressed from software engineer to senior roles working on vLLM and large language model inference, shipping performance-sensitive systems for real-world workloads. Earlier roles in data analytics and research provided strong foundations in ETL, A/B testing, and signal processing, enabling pragmatic feature engineering and model evaluation. Colleagues describe Qi as someone who blends deep technical rigor with product-minded execution, often applying academic methods to optimize production throughput and latency.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Undergrad Student Scholar Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Undergrad Student Scholar Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tianjin University
Summer Camp Engineering, Summer Camp Engineering at Peking University
Summer Camp Engineering, Summer Camp Engineering at California State University Long Beach, College of Engineering
Chinese, English, French, Chinese