Qian Wan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Instagram
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQian Wan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics to tackle open-ended problems. Currently at Instagram after progressive engineering and management roles at Meta, Qian has driven feed ranking and growth initiatives that bridge research and production-scale systems. His background includes computational biology research and large-scale RNA-seq annotation work from Carnegie Mellon, informing a data-driven approach to product ML. He also has hands-on experience in scientific computing and bioinformatics from industry roles at Emerald Cloud Lab and Affymetrix, enabling cross-domain solutions in health and social platforms. Known for exploring unknowns, Qian pairs academic rigor (Google Scholar presence) with pragmatic engineering to move novel ideas into robust services. Based in the United States, he brings uncommon depth at the intersection of life sciences and large-scale recommender systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering, M.S.E.E, Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech UniversityB.Eng, Software Engineering, B.Eng, Software Engineering at Jinan UniversityNot Completed, Not Completed at Chinese Academy of SciencesMaster of Science (M.S.), Computational Biology, Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
blockchain2
ethereum1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qianwan/lpp-wmmse
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 5 pushes in 11 months
qianwan/emacs.d
Apr 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:94 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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