Di Qi

Co-Founder

New York, New York, United States8 yrs 11 mos experience

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Experience

8 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Legora

Forward Deployed Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos

  • Legora’s collaborative AI platform helps lawyers review and research faster, draft smarter, and advise with precision.
  • Backed by world-class investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator, Legora serves more than 600 leading law firms and in-house legal teams in over 50 markets.

Lantern

Co-founder / CEO

Sep 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • We were building a platform for developing AI applications on top of Postgres.
  • Raised $4.2M from investors including The House Fund, Wayfinder Ventures, and Y Combinator (W24).

Y combinator

Product Engineer

Oct 2022Aug 2023 · 10 mos

  • I worked on the jobs platform for YC companies (Work at a Startup) and other internal tools.

Startup

Co-founder / CTO

Sep 2019Sep 2022 · 3 yrs

  • I built many different products, including multiple mobile apps, web apps, robotics / controls.
  • Raised $3.7M from investors including Soma Capital, Global Founders Capital, and Y Combinator (S20).

Meta

Machine Learning Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Dynamic Ads Ranking team. I built a search style retrieval pipeline, worked on feature engineering, and improved our offline evaluation framework.

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos

  • Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) team. ASK provides APIs for developers to build applications on top of Alexa. I built an authentication workflow for the ASK CLI.

Washington university in st. louis

Research Assistant

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · St Louis, Missouri, United States

  • I evaluated algorithms to use metadata to provide human-understandable explanations for data anomalies in collaboration with 2 other researchers.
  • I was the first author on the paper presented at WACV 2017.

Princeton university

2 roles

Course Grader (Computer Science)

Jan 2016May 2016 · 4 mos

  • Grade and give feedback on programming assignments for COS226: Algorithms and Data Structures

Teaching Assistant (Philosophy)

Aug 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Wrote course materials, co-hosted office hours, helped teach, and graded / provided feedback for assignments for Princeton's most competitive freshman seminar.

Education

Y Combinator

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Princeton University

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2018

Beijing Normal University

Jan 2015Jan 2015

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