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Margaret Qian

Margaret Qian

Engineering leader building scalable ML and inference systems

margaret-qian
San Francisco, California, United States
Joined May 2026
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Summary

Engineering leader focused on production-grade LLM and inference systems, with hands-on experience designing scheduling, memory management, and continuous-batching solutions for low-latency enterprise deployments. databricks+1
Practitioner bridging research and production: undergraduate research contributions in multimedia and computational graphics at Columbia, later applying systems and ML engineering skills in industry roles. columbia+1
Active contributor to public-facing engineering and demo projects, maintaining a personal project presence and code/profile pages (GitHub, Hugging Face, Bloooop) alongside corporate engineering outputs. github+2
Broad industry experience across big tech and research-focused startups — roles at Facebook, OctoML, MosaicML, Databricks, and Applied Compute — demonstrating mobility between research, tooling, and production ML infrastructure. rocketreach

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Fast, Secure and Reliable: Enterprise-grade LLM Inference

March 1, 2024

Databricks blog post describing design principles, scheduling, memory management (KV cache), and optimization strategies for enterprise-grade LLM inference services.

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Introducing Llama2-70B-Chat with MosaicML Inference

August 1, 2023

Databricks blog post about making Llama2-70B-Chat available via MosaicML Inference and integrating with MLflow AI Gateway, covering deployment, reliability, and performance considerations.

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SentiCart: Cartography and Geo-contextualization for Multilingual Corpora

January 1, 2016

Academic paper (ICMR) on SentiCart; includes Margaret Qian in the paper metadata/contact information, reflecting research involvement during Columbia studies.

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Computational Hydrographic Printing (research write-up)

Research document on computational hydrographic printing listing contributors and acknowledgements that include Margaret Qian.

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Hobbies

Creates playful interactive web audio projects (contributor to Bloooop). github