# Oscar Qiu

> Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at TikTok, Certified Google Cloud Engineer

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oscarqiu

California born and raised, I am a team lead at TikTok and Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer interested in cloud computing and backend development. In my free time, I attend hackathons and mentor other software engineers. Feel free to reach me through Linkedin Messaging or email at oscar@oscar.dev

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ TikTok
Jan 2020 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Developing a new Customer Relationship Management application with hundreds of end users to improve sales efficiency and effectiveness using Java Spring microservices, Thrift RPC, MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and React
• Sole owner of the integration module responsible for 29% of all advertisement leads, worth $1.4M+
• Outstanding Employee Award 2023 for leading the integration of TikTok Shop and others
• Improving the stability and reliability of Tiktok's core video architecture, handling millions of concurrent users streaming and uploading video
• Leading multiple projects concurrently and independently, guiding junior engineers, and planning roadmap

### Software Engineer @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
• Propelled a next-gen product through all of its stages from scratch to Beta release to Top HR Product of 2021
• Integrated customer GDPR and CCPA requests into a central source to allow customers to automatically pick which products to have data exported from using Python and Kafka
• Built the next generation workforce performance development product from the ground up using Angular, Node.js, Flask, and MySql which signed the first beta customers
• Lead new feature work to guide users to produce impactful responses by launching new services, dividing the work among peers, and meeting security guidelines
• Launched Java microservices following CQRS paradigm for the next generation tax engine for the  product

### Software Engineering / Project Management Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Hired out of more than 1300 applicants to aid in the development of service operations software in project management and software development
• Met one on one with service center managers to produce software design requirements and source feedback from users
• Built a real time data dashboards using Node.js and Deepstream for service centers. Deployed applications to multiple service centers using LXD and PM2
• Used Adobe Illustrator to transform center blueprints into user friendly maps for the dashboards

### Software Engineer Intern @ EverString
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Built a data integrity tool with Node.js, Angular, and MongoDB to help other employees quickly identify errors from automatically obtained data
• Contacted various data visualization vendors on behalf of the company and evaluated the best fit for the company


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22