Summary
Rui Qiao is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with deep expertise in distributed systems, search infrastructure, and large-scale ML runtimes. After several years leading search indexing and data-processing efforts at LinkedIn, Rui now contributes to cutting-edge LLM infrastructure at Anyscale, working on vLLM, Ray LLM, and Ray Compiled Graphs. His background includes internships at Google and Facebook focused on low-level platform research and program analysis, and he pairs strong academic credentials (MS and PhD-level study in computer science) with practical production experience. Rui is comfortable bridging research and production: he translates systems-level insights into scalable, reliable services that power search and model serving. An engineer who moves between storage, compute graphs, and inference stacks, he brings both algorithmic rigor and operational sensibility to performance-critical systems.
2 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Wuhan University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook