Summary
Qi Xu is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI with 13 years of experience designing and operating internet-scale services, distributed systems, and high-performance computing platforms. Previously a Principal Software Engineer Manager at PingCAP and staff engineer at Alibaba, Qi built large-scale cloud and data infrastructure including work on Microsoft Exchange Online during a long tenure at Microsoft. Based in Kirkland, Washington, he combines deep systems engineering with people leadership, shipping production-critical services on both Alibaba Cloud and public cloud providers. Qi also shares practical trading and Python insights via a public WeChat account focused on quantitative trading, reflecting a hands-on curiosity beyond core infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University