Yiqing Fan

I have over a decade of experience building world-class engineering organizations, guiding exceptional career growth of my people. An accomplished technology executive and mentor consistently developing and running high-performing teams, I’m passionate about and skilled at delivering impactful results with high quality and efficiency. I take a people-first approach, hiring top talent, challenging my team with ambitious goals, empowering everyone to lead and guiding everyone to deliver outsized impact while achieving significant career growth. I have proven track records mentoring engineering and product leaders across various domains and technologies, and across various stages of businesses.

As a people leader, one of my biggest passions lies in developing people. Throughout my career, I have been a proud mentor both inside my organization and outside. Growing others has been a key driver of my development. I have mentored hundreds of individuals to date, including many successful engineers and leaders at FAANG, ULA and startups.

My mentees come to me for a variety of career development topics, including getting promoted, getting hired, transitioning from an IC to a manager, growing from managing a team to managing an organization, and developing leadership. We spend our introductory meeting going over two topics. First, I ensure I and the mentee themselves understand their goals and the “why” behind these goals. Second, we establish a mentorship plan to help the mentee accomplish the goals. After the first meeting, I either continue to meet with the mentee to discuss ongoing issues and strategies, or assign written tasks and review them regularly.

Every mentorship is unique and I’m always behind each mentee. Here are a couple of example stories. With our mentorship, an entry-level software engineer at FAANG got promoted to mid-level in eight months and then immediately completed their manager transition in nine months. A senior software engineer at ULA who aspired to become a manager but struggled for two years earned their manager transition after six months of our mentorship.