Ruiqing Qiu is a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and media products, previously leading GenAI, sports infrastructure, and live TV experiences at YouTube. He combines full-stack engineering and ML/NLP expertise—from Scala/Python data pipelines and recommendation engines to LLM-driven metadata and multi-modal video understanding—to ship scalable systems used by millions. Notable projects include launching NFL Sunday Ticket features like multiview and real-time telestration powered by NFL Next Gen Stats, and contributing to the Apache PredictionIO ecosystem. A creative technologist outside work, he hosts an AI-generated podcast, designs commercial prompts on PromptBase, and experiments with generative visuals and consumer apps, reflecting a pragmatic maker’s instinct for turning research into delightful, usable products. Located in Mountain View, he blends product-focused leadership with hands-on implementation across backend, ML, and client experiences.
PredictionIO, a machine learning server for developers and ML engineers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:38 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ruiqing primarily contributed to the development of a friend recommendation engine. They implemented data source integrations for reading and processing training data using Scala and Python. Additionally, the user added command-line arguments to a file processing script, enabling greater flexibility. Moreover, they updated and added data sources, and added code related to recommendation algorithms in Scala. The user also added an evaluator for the recommendations, showing their involvement in the entire recommendation pipeline.
Contributions:58 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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Ruiqing Qiu - Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI