Summary
Ziqiang Yang is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building high‑traffic, scalable systems and currently serves as Senior Director of Engineering at Meituan in Beijing. He has led cross‑functional teams through rapid growth phases and complex domains—traffic, finance, payments, and anti‑fraud—after senior roles at Xiu, Amazon, and IBM. Known for a customer‑first mindset and pragmatic ownership, he excels at simplifying hard distributed systems challenges while keeping high availability and performance front and center. A Peking University computer science graduate, he combines startup agility from founding developer/architect roles with enterprise rigor from Amazon and IBM. Colleagues describe him as someone who hires top talent and cultivates engineering excellence during hypergrowth rather than merely scaling headcount.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Peking University