Summary
Qiang Zhang is a senior software development engineer with over 17 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping embedded and connectivity software for consumer devices. Based in San Jose, he has led WLAN and connectivity stacks for multiple generations of Amazon Fire TV at Lab126 and previously architected WLAN protocol firmware at Qualcomm. His deep expertise spans wireless technologies, embedded RTOS/OS integration, networking protocols, C/C++, AOSP, and Windows driver development, enabling end-to-end delivery from silicon to system. Comfortable operating at both chip and product levels, he blends protocol-level rigor with pragmatic system integration to solve real-world connectivity challenges. Unusually for an engineer focused on firmware, he bridges mobile platform (AOSP) development and low-level driver/RTOS work, making him effective across the full device software stack.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University