Summary
Qianrui Zhao is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven applications across major tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Expedia. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and has a track record of shipping features that move metrics—such as a multi-room booking flow that increased Expedia’s conversion and drove millions in revenue. At Microsoft she built compliant, scalable KPI and incident-monitoring portals with React, .NET and Cosmos DB, improving operational efficiency and accessibility for thousands of engineers. Her background spans low-level systems work on seL4 and encryption research to modern web and Android development, and she’s currently contributing to an Android project while deepening mobile skills. Based in the Greater Seattle area, she combines production-grade engineering with a curiosity for systems and security that surfaces in both kernel-level and full-stack projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.76/4.0, Computer Science, 3.76/4.0 at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.68, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.68 at Columbia University in the City of New York
UNSW Sydney
Chinese, English