Yanqing Cheng

Yanqing Cheng is a software engineering leader with over a decade of experience in distributed systems and software quality. Her career spans networking protocol stacks in C, 5G core platforms, and cloud-scale test infrastructure at Metaswitch and Microsoft Azure. She has led teams across complex technical domains while championing psychological safety, neurodiversity inclusion, and developing her people. Currently on a career break raising her baby daughter, she is still deeply interested in how AI is shaping software development practices, particularly around quality and reliability. Outside engineering, she performs musical theatre and plays chess.