Kaiwen Qu
Software Engineer @ Snap ML Data Infra (ex-AWS)
- Role
- Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kaiwen Qu
Software engineer with 13+ years of experience defining multi-year technical vision and delivering large-scale platform initiatives across distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure. Proven track record of driving cross-organizational alignment at Snap and Amazon, building foundational infrastructure—from Snap’s Lakehouse ML platform to AWS S3 Select—that reshaped how organizations process and leverage data at scale. Deep expertise in distributed storage, data platform architecture, and AI/ML infrastructure.
Experience
Software Engineer
Jun 2020 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Backend EngineerPart of Snap’s multi-cloud infrastructure platform engineering team, driving large-scale, high-performance engineering solutions.Currently:* Leading the development of a state-of-the-art Lakehouse platform to power Snap’s AI / machine learning workloads.* Building scalable and cost-effective solutions to manage critical ML data, with a focus on read/write optimization and data lifecycle management at the same time, meeting different compliance requirements* Providing tailored query engine solutions for diverse customer use cases, leveraging technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Trino, BigQueryBefore 2024;Part of Online Storage team handling different Snap product verticals metadata * Designed and maintained a storage-engine-agnostic metadata storage platform serving company-wide workloads at massive scale.* Delivered high-throughput, low-latency, cost-efficient solutions while ensuring multi-tenancy and secure handling of sensitive user data.* Integrated and optimized various storage and caching technologies including Amazon DynamoDB, Google Firestore, Google Cloud Spanner, Aerospike, and KeyDB, enabling best-in-class metadata services across Snap’s verticals.
Education
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2009 — 2013
Skills
- Algorithms
- Assembly
- Javascript
- C++
- Software Development
- Python
- Software Engineering
- Git
- C#
- R
- Xml
- Java
- Ruby
- Sql
- Korean
- Spring Mvc
- Php
- Security
- Large Scale Deployments
- Data Structures
- C
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Asp.net Mvc
- Operational Excellence
- Operations Management
- Software Design Patterns
- Scala
- Android Development
- Spring Framework
- Mandarin
- Large Scale Systems
- Eclipse
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