Yiming Qi is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce in Seattle with eight years of professional experience building search, machine learning, and mobile systems across Oracle, Yahoo! Japan, Ctrip, and Salesforce. He combines deep search and NLP expertise from Oracle Text with practical ML and fraud-detection work at Yahoo!, and later led mobile and international flight-booking engineering at Ctrip before returning to Salesforce to drive Service Cloud and Analytics Cloud initiatives. An active front-end contributor to Salesforce’s popular design-system-react repo, he focuses on accessible, maintainable UI components and pragmatic refactors. Comfortable switching between individual contributor and engineering manager roles, he excels at translating research and business trends into shipped product features. Collected experiences across database search platforms, large-scale data mining, and mobile app engineering give him a rare full-stack perspective on product and platform design.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Dartmouth College
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWC Mahindra College
Contributions:43 commits, 8 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Yiming primarily contributed to the React-based front-end of the Salesforce Lightning Design System. Their work included implementing and modifying the Lookup component, specifically integrating the `react-onclickoutside` library for improved functionality. The commits demonstrate refactoring, bug fixes, and general maintenance of the UI components, with a focus on accessibility and usability. The user's efforts also involved updating and testing existing components.
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Yiming Qi - Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce