# Song Qian

> Software Engineer

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/songqian

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ Convoy Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington
Delivering happiness to Convoy carriers as a member of Application Platform:
- Improved carrier offer feed and offer search by introducing stream processing, reduced query latency by 90%. The system also served as the foundational building block for various offer feed and search features.
- Introduced offer bookmarks to help carriers get back to the offers they are interested in.
- Launched Convoy Factoring and Convoy Fuel Card programs, providing industry leading rates to truck drivers on invoice factoring and fuel purchases.
- Built the next generation carrier communications platform to improve carrier notification and reduce ops burden with better automation.
- Worked the entire stack: backend microservices, Node.js and GraphQL, React Native and native iOS & Android app development, React web application development.
- Contributed to various react native modules: react-native-notifications, react-native-PDFView, react-native-fs and react-native-pdf-thumbnail.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2011 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Move fast and ship things!

Instant Games
- Contributed to ranking, platform integrity, growth and monetization efforts to help scale the Instant Games platform to over 6000 games.

Facebook Marketplace
- Over 100x efficiency improvement for dealer vehicle inventory ingestion system.

Page Offers and QR Code
- 2x improvement in page offer impressions.
- Introduced unified QR code framework and onboard various products.
- Significant improvements to Facebook for Android's QR code scanning performance.

Facebook Audience Network
- Founding engineer and tech lead for Audience Network, a mobile ad network that makes the millions of Facebook advertisers accessible to third party app developers for the first time. The product is well received by app developers since launching in April 2014.
- Audience Network reached a $1B annual run rate for advertising spend through the Audience Network in Dec 2015, only 20 months since initial launch.
- Designed and implemented native ads API which provides a highly customizable ad format enabling app developers to create a better ad experience. Many app developers have seen great outcome from adopting native ads. Various competing ad networks started offering this same ad format after seeing its success in Audience Network.

Mobile App Install Ads
- Added horizontally scrollable mobile app install ad units to Facebook news feed.

Facebook push notification delivery
- Built and scaled the infrastructure to handle delivery of billions of push notifications daily for the Facebook family of mobile apps, including Facebook and Messenger.

Facebook text messages (SMS)
- Added messaging functionality to Facebook's SMS product.
- Improved product usability and reliability.
- Reduced operational cost.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Greater Seattle Area
SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Content Management:
- Information management policy
- Document retention and expiration
- In-place records
- Litigation hold
- E-discovery

### Software Developer @ SAP BusinessObjects
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Vancouver, Canada Area
BusinessObjects XI:
- Universal repository explorer, an AJAX enabled rich JSF UI control

### Software Developer Intern @ SAP BusinessObjects
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Vancouver, Canada Area
BusinessObjects XI 3.0:
- InfoView client action framework, client actions and platform services

### Associate Analyst Intern @ LifeScan
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Developed internal web applications and dashboard using VB.NET, ASP.NET, Dundas Chart and Dundas Gauge.


## Education
### BSc First Class Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics
Simon Fraser University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/songqian
- Website: https://coffee.songqian.org

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Last updated: 2026-03-29