Fred Ji is a Staff Software Engineer and tech leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with two decades of R&D experience and nine years in senior engineering roles focused on scalable infrastructure and data systems. He currently leads Google Play infrastructure efforts to make Android app delivery resilient at global scale, after building cloud-native vehicle management and V2X platforms as Head of Software at a connected-vehicles startup. His background spans real-time stream processing, GDPR and security features for big data at LinkedIn, and early work on data quality and deployment tooling at Yahoo!, combining systems thinking with pragmatic delivery. Fred holds advanced degrees from Tsinghua University and USC, and brings a rare mix of academic research in decision modeling and hands-on production engineering—useful for turning ambiguous problems into robust, deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Industrial & Systems Engineering, Ph.D. Industrial & Systems Engineering at University of Southern California
M.S. Control Theory and Engineering (Enterprise Information Systems), M.S. Control Theory and Engineering (Enterprise Information Systems) at Tsinghua University
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