# Yucheng Q.

> Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yucheng

Experienced software engineer with a track record of delivering innovative solutions to business problems. Skilled in both front and back end development. Constantly learning and enjoy turning cutting edge technology into delightful solutions.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• TL of the Custom Model Serving team at Databricks, seamlessly transforming MLflow models into scalable real-time serving endpoints.
• Managed roadmap planning and project execution, ensuring alignment with cross-functional teams.  
• Mentored team members to foster growth and enhance technical skills within the group.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead on a unified UI product designed to accelerate ML development and data visualization at Cruise.

-Led the planning and execution of product roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of milestones through effective delegation and cross-functional collaboration.
- Introduced innovative technologies such as micro-frontend, GraphQL Federation, and Redis Search to enhance product functionality and development experience.
- Collaborated actively with customers and partner teams to identify and address product gaps and challenges, resulting in a more user-friendly product experience
- Mentored team members, fostering their professional growth and supporting them in achieving key roadmap milestones.
- Fostered an engineering culture that balanced speed and quality, leading to improved efficiency and product reliability.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led the development of LinkedIn’s machine learning platform to enhance the AI practitioner experience.
- Served as the tech lead for a user-centric product covering the entire ML development lifecycle, from offline exploration and model training to online experimentation and continuous maintenance.
- Spearheaded full-stack development to launch the product, including frontend web app (EmberJS, Typescript), backend metadata store service (Java, Kafka, MySQL, Elastic Search), and offline data/model analysis (Spark, Scala, Python).
- Collaborated and negotiated with end users, designers, and engineers to strike a balance between usability and complexity in implementation.
- Fostered team growth through continuous learning of domain-specific topics (explainable AI, deep learning) and technological advancements (React, Electron, GraphQL).

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improve productivity of LinkedIn AI engineers by providing effective debugging, explaining and monitoring solutions.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Jobcase, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Proactively define and clarify product requirements, lead the development and ensure timely delivery of critical product features. Projects and systems include:
- Machine Learning platform, streamlining the training and deployment of predictive models
- Large-scale email authoring and deliver management system
- Integration with external Applicant Tracking Systems
- Onsite notification system

### Technical Lead @ LabCentrix LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Lead the product development of stemTrak (www.stemtrak.com) 
** Design and implement core functions with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and MySQL
** Oversee the development life cycle, using Jira (issue tracking and task assignment), Bitbucket (version control with git), and Bamboo (automated testing and deployment) 
** Give instructions and guidance to junior developers

- Engage with customers throughout the entire implementation process, including: 
** Exhibit the product at conferences, and give demonstrations to potential customers 
** Meet the end users onsite to gather requirements 
** Present in-progress development work to the users to acquire feedback 
** Deploy into the production environment with the IT team from the customer 
** Perform user training and go-live support

### Senior Technical Analyst @ LabCentrix LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Design and implement custom system solutions for various clients, using Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript and HTML
- Engage with customers to acquire the requirements, and convert them to development and testing tasks for the developers
- Interact with customers directly during the development life cycle to present solutions and transcribe feedback into product improvement

### Development Associate @ Body1, Inc
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Web development with Adobe Coldfusion and Microsoft SQL Server


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering
Tsinghua University

### MS in Information Systems
Northeastern University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31