Summary
Qian 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 University
Master’s Degree, Master of Information Technology - Mobility, Master’s Degree, Master of Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, Chinese