Qianqian Zhong is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed key-value stores, caching layers, and database-backed systems, currently driving Online Data within Data Platform at Airbnb and now shaping Meta’s next-generation ML recommender serving in MRS. She blends deep systems engineering with people leadership—transitioning from Senior Software Engineer roles at Airbnb to Senior Engineering Manager and Senior Staff Engineer responsibilities at Meta—delivering production-grade, low-latency data platforms for high-throughput services. Her background spans host/guest and storage infrastructure, giving her a pragmatic perspective on operationalizing storage and serving systems at scale. Trained in computer science from Beihang and Santa Clara Universities and with early industry experience at Alibaba, she has a rare combination of research-grounded expertise and hands-on production experience in distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering at Beijing Normal University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Beihang University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Santa Clara University
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