Qian Xu
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolQian Xu is a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale full-stack systems and APIs at Google, YouTube, and Amazon, now based in Mountain View. She has driven high-impact partner integrations and product launches—most notably delivering camera and monitoring features for Google Nest and reaching millions via Alexa Skill integrations—while cutting critical Pub/Sub latency by 83% and raising automated test coverage above 90%. Her background spans mobile and backend engineering, from architecting account menu services used by billions to inventing multi-turn Alexa Q&A experiences and applying ML+NLP to improve mapping precision. Trained at Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon, she combines rigorous research experience (published work on CNN transfer learning for historical Chinese character recognition) with pragmatic product delivery and cross-functional leadership. Colleagues rely on her for roadmap planning, mentoring junior engineers, and translating complex partner requirements into reliable, user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Foshan No.1 High School 佛山市第一中学Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityMaster’s Degree, Master of Information Technology - Mobility, Master’s Degree, Master of Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (24)
docker-desktop9
python8
gitbook6
react5
science5
nodejs5
full-stack5
css5
javascript4
fundamentals4
machine-learning4
java4
desktop4
docker4
ansible4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
QianXuX/QianXuX.github.io
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes in 5 months
sqxone/Nodephilipshue
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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