# Ning Lan

> Principle Software Engineer at Global Payments Inc.

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ninglan

## Work Experience
### Principle Software Engineer @ Global Payments Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Global Payments Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ GetHired, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ QVC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo, CA
- Designed database and developed ETL that integrates QVC inventory and ToGather activity data.
- Constructed multicore Solr system for web search. 
- Developed Drupal back-end PHP scripts to construct an image server.
- Worked with analytics and social marketing teams at QVC on data export and reporting.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Oodle
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Mateo, CA
- Integrated data from 3rd party resources using API such as Chome and Carmax to improve listing quality
- Designed and implemented algorithms to process unstructured data for valuable attributes, and rules for identifying spam listings.
- Worked with web engineers, analytic scientists, account managers, customer service and external partners to ingest, manipulate, export and analyze data.

### Software Engineer @ Oodle
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | San Mateo, CA
- Developed perl crawlers to scrape a large variety of classifieds sites.
- Created web tools for partners to upload feeds.
- Designed perl Modules to process listing feeds of various formats

### Software Engineer @ Medley
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Palo Alto, CA
- Developed and maintained web-based tools for storage, reporting, analytics and metrics for marketing campaign performance in terms of percent marketing cost to revenue generated and long term ROI.
- Designed and implemented automatic bid management and optimization system of site traffic data to increase search engine marketing campaign performance. 
- Worked with business and market analysts on database expansion and software support to fit the need of new campaigns.

### Scientific Programmer @ Incyte
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | Palo Alto, CA
- Designed and implemented data processing modules in Perl for cleaning up raw sequences, verification of ESTs, nomination of ortholog clones and microarray data curation.
- Participated in design and creation of Oracle Database for microarray data. Developed Perl modules and CGI web interface to convert, load and curate microarray data from SOFT and MAGE-ML format
- Designed and Created Postgre database for clone sequence verification and mapping microarray reporters to Incyte proprietary genes

### Postdoctoral Fellow @ Yale Univeristy
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 | New Haven, CT
- Led in designing and administrating the SPINE database, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Data mining approach for multi-institutional structural proteomics projects. Developed web interface in PHP and CGI for query and update of database. 
- Designed and maintained a large database for protein microarray data. Did Statistical analysis of expression profiles in relation to protein function using Matlab. 
- Integrated gene expression data with gene ontology for evaluation of clustering algorithms using C++, java and S-PLUS. Developed java applet representation of large pathway graphs.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Genetics
Duke University

### B.S. in Biology
Peking University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12