Summary
Yan Qi is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building and operating petabyte-scale data platforms and analytics systems, currently leading teams at Apple from California. He combines a strong research foundation (Ph.D. work) and hands-on systems experience from Teradata and Turn—designing HDFS-based warehouses, parallel ETL pipelines, and multi-site, high-availability infrastructures. Yan’s background spans healthcare, consulting, and business analytics, enabling him to translate complex data requirements into scalable, schema-driven APIs and real-time analytics solutions. Known for bridging research and production, he has a track record of integrating EDW systems with Hadoop and NoSQL ecosystems to optimize large-scale data movement and query performance. Colleagues rely on him to deliver pragmatic architecture that balances performance, reliability, and operational simplicity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Arizona State University
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China