Yudong Qiu
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYudong Qiu is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 11 years of engineering experience, specializing in building and scaling web applications using Python and React.js. He transitioned from computational chemistry research—holding a PhD and publications in molecular simulations—into production engineering, bringing deep domain knowledge in scientific software, data pipelines, and distributed systems. As a founding engineer at VALIS he architected cloud-native backend infrastructure, integrated genomic datasets, and implemented autoscaling Kubernetes deployments, blending startup pragmatism with research rigor. At UC Davis he developed widely adopted open-source tools (e.g., TorsionDrive) and contributed to projects like OpenMM and TensorFlow, reflecting a pattern of shipping research-grade software for broader use. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines a researcher’s attention to detail with product-focused execution to deliver impactful, user-facing systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Chemistry at University of Georgia Department of Chemistry
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openforcefield/openforcefield-forcebalance
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Optimization of OpenFF parameters using ForceBalance and QCArchive
Contributions:18 releases, 121 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
parametersoptimizationopenff
yudongqiu/geomeTRIC
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Geometry optimization code that includes the TRIC coordinate system
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
optimizationcode-optimizationcoordinategeometrygeometry-optimization
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