# Minqi C.

> Software Engineer @ Yupp | ex-Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/minqic

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Yupp
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
At Yupp, I do whatever it takes to ship: building the 0-to-1 product architecture from multi-model streaming and rich content rendering to our auth and onboarding from scratch. I also lay the foundation for our frontend infra, building the release pipelines, observability, and dev tooling that let our team move fast.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
At Google, I was the tech lead for the Google Wallet Tap to Pay team to deliver and grow NFC contactless payment experience on Android. 

* Led project across all aspects of the product, including: modernizing authentication requirements, improving face unlock experience, building onboarding education, pioneering the first growth experiments to grow monthly transacting users, responding to regulatory requirements, improving testing story on emulators. 
* Implemented the user-facing transition from legacy Google Pay to the modern architecture powered by Google Play services. 
* Worked closely with the engineering manager to scale the team through hiring & mentoring new engineers.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Singapore
Software Engineer on Google Pay India (Tez)

* Launched Tez (now rebranded as Google Pay) in India in 2017, reaching 50 million installs in less than 1 year.
* Full stack contribution: transaction status update and notification delivery pipeline in the backend; the first version of conversation UI, and transaction details on Android client.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California
Learnt how to move protos :)


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National University of Singapore

### IBDP
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/minqic

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Last updated: 2026-04-05