Summary
Qian Su is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Menlo Park with nine years of professional experience building high-performance server-side systems and compelling user experiences. He has deep expertise in Java, scalable backend architectures, algorithms and data structures, and a long history using industry frameworks and tools from Spring and Hibernate to Lucene and JMS. Qian progressed through multiple engineering roles at LinkedIn before taking senior technical positions at WePay and J.P. Morgan, combining startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability. He favors TDD, model-driven design, and pragmatic OO patterns to drive maintainable, testable systems that perform under load. Comfortable across languages from JavaScript to C++, he also brings hands-on ops experience with CI/CD and deployment stacks like Maven, Ant, Tomcat and Oracle/MySQL. Outside the obvious tech stack, Qian pairs product-minded engineering with a Steve Jobs–inspired ambition to "make a dent in the universe," reflecting a focus on impact as well as correctness.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Fudan University
MA, MA at UC Santa Barbara
Wuhan Foreign Language School