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Qiaoran Abbate

Santa Clara,CA

Summary

Staff Data Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable data platforms and tracking systems. Led BILL’s event architecture across web, mobile, and backend, supporting 1M+ daily events. Skilled in Kafka, dbt, Segment, and observability. Former EM with a focus on enablement and mentorship.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Lead Staff Data Engineer

BILL
San Jose, United States
07.2025 - Current
  • Transitioned back to a Staff IC role to lead critical backend instrumentation design for BILL’s microservices.
  • Leading backend instrumentation architecture using Kafka, Flint, Segment, and dbt.
  • Defined event contracts and observability standards across microservices.
  • Mentoring engineers on Redshift to Iceberg migration and sessionization strategies.
  • Driving GTM instrumentation and aligned platform tracking across teams.

Engineering Manager, Data

BILL
San Jose, United States
05.2024 - 06.2025
  • Scaled governance across 6 product lines and 1M+ daily tracking events.
  • Boosted compliance 80% by rolling out Avo and Segment Protocols.
  • Reduced tracking bugs 87% through schema validation and observability tooling.
  • Led cross-functional alignment with Growth, Product, Engineering, and RevOps.

Staff Software Engineer – Data

BILL
San Jose, United States
01.2023 - 05.2024
  • Designed web/mobile tracking infra; enabled schema enforcement via Avo & Segment.
  • Built pipelines from Segment → S3; modeled and validated with dbt.
  • Set up Datadog dashboards, alerts, and IDE-integrated tools for developers.
  • Created training, demos, and documentation to drive platform adoption.

Senior Software Engineer – Data

BILL
San Jose, United States
09.2021 - 01.2023
  • Built org-wide dbt repo with CI/CD and data modeling standards.
  • Migrated legacy Athena queries into dbt models.
  • Unified data engineering across BILL and acquired Invoice2go pipelines.

Software Engineer – Data

Invoice2go
Redwood City, United States
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • Built and maintained ELT and real-time ingestion pipelines.
  • Supported finance and competitive intelligence with custom analytics workflows.
  • Platform continued running post-acquisition with minimal changes.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
08-2019

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
03-2017

Skills

  • Kafka messaging system
  • Apache Airflow orchestration
  • Flint data processing
  • AWS Lambda and API Gateway
  • Amazon Redshift database
  • SQL database management
  • Python programming
  • CI/CD pipeline development
  • Data pipeline development
  • Event tracking design
  • Observability implementation
  • Datadog monitoring tools
  • Microservices architecture
  • Data governance strategies
  • Java programming

Impact Highlights

  • Scaled BILL's instrumentation platform to 1M daily events across client-side and backend services.
  • Cut tracking implementation time by 76% and tracking bugs by 87% with shared tooling and observability.
  • Created centralized dbt repo (10K commits, 1.9K contributors) powering analytics and experimentation.
  • Drove company-wide adoption through enablement sessions, live demos, and training documentation.
  • Standardized data modeling and CI/CD pipelines across product analytics and engineering.

Earlier Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley Extension, Mentored students in Python, SQL, and Tableau., 2020
  • Research Assistant, RIT, Co-developed SparkFHE using homomorphic encryption on Spark., 2018-2019
  • Analytics Engineer, EMA Design Automation, Built post-sales dashboards in Tableau., 2016-2017
  • Crime Data Engineer, Monroe Crime Analysis Center, Developed GIS dashboards and ETLs., 2014-2015
  • Data Analyst Intern, City of Rochester, Built disaster recovery and public safety pipelines., 2014

Timeline

Tech Lead Staff Data Engineer

BILL
07.2025 - Current

Engineering Manager, Data

BILL
05.2024 - 06.2025

Staff Software Engineer – Data

BILL
01.2023 - 05.2024

Senior Software Engineer – Data

BILL
09.2021 - 01.2023

Software Engineer – Data

Invoice2go
03.2020 - 10.2021

Master of Science - Computer Science

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

Rochester Institute of Technology

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