Xinyao Qian
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolXinyao Qian is a Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and moderation pipelines for consumer platforms. Currently on Alexa Shopping at Amazon, they bring production-grade microservices experience from prior roles at ByteDance (high-concurrency Go services for content safety) and hands-on recommender and cloud-deployed systems for startups. Xinyao pairs strong academic credentials (MS in Computer Science from Emory, finance BA) with practical delivery—designing data funnels, internal libraries, and moderation tooling that improved accuracy and developer productivity. Deeply passionate about AI research and the foundations of intelligence, they maintain an active GitHub and personal site exploring ambitious work toward general artificial intelligence. An often-overlooked strength is their history of writing clear internal documentation and reusable libraries that accelerate team velocity across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Finance, GPA:3.75/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Finance, GPA:3.75/4.0 at 中南财经政法大学Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at Emory UniversityCourse Certificate (Minor), Computer Science and Technolgy, 3.7/4.0, Course Certificate (Minor), Computer Science and Technolgy, 3.7/4.0 at 华中科技大学
Chinese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (7)
content-based-recommendation10
filtering10
collaborative-filtering10
dfa10
recommendation-system9
java7
java-agent1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bluemapleman/NewsRecommendSystem
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
个性化新闻推荐系统，A news recommendation system involving collaborative filtering,content-based recommendation and hot news recommendation, can be adapted easily to be put into use in other circumstances.
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 1 month
adaptedcollaborative-filteringrecommendationrecommendation-systemcontent-based
bluemapleman/MachineLearningCourseNote
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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