{"id":475225,"date":"2026-09-25T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:42:33","slug":"san-jose-man-killed-in-golden-gate-boat-crash-was-apple-software-engineer-marin-independent-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475225\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man killed in Golden Gate boat crash was Apple software engineer \u2013 Marin Independent Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose man who died in a boat collision last week<\/a> was a software engineer at Apple and a father of three children, according to an online fundraiser created on behalf of his family.<\/p>\n

Daniel Zhengyu Qin, 35, died on Thursday after the fishing vessel he was riding on ran aground north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The collision injured two other boaters.<\/p>\n

Qin was a \u201cdevoted husband\u201d and had three young children aged 11, 9 and three, according to the GoFundMe page, which was created by Cathy Wu, a friend of the family, for Qin\u2019s wife Yao Deng. Deng could not be reached directly for comment Monday afternoon,<\/p>\n

\u201cHis sudden passing has left his wife and children facing an unimaginable loss, both emotionally and financially,\u201d the page reads.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser describes Qin as \u201ckind, funny, and endlessly generous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got along effortlessly with his coworkers, his children looked up to him, and his friends adored him,\u201d the page reads. \u201cHe was always the first to show up when anyone needed help \u2014 whether it was passing along his kids\u2019 outgrown things to other families, sharing the fish he caught on his fishing trips, or simply lending a hand whenever a friend was in need. He leaves behind a legacy of love and generosity that will live on through his three children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 6 a.m. on Thursday, authorities responded to Lime Point on reports that a 22-foot boat was stuck and taking on water<\/a>. A Coast Guard ship responded to retrieve the boaters, one of whom was in cardiac arrest when they arrived. The man in cardiac arrest was revived en route to the hospital but later died due to significant trauma.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser is seeking to raise $200,000 to cover memorial expenses<\/a>, emergency costs and the living costs of his children. By Tuesday afternoon, it had raised more than $170,000.<\/p>\n

A statement from a spokesperson for Apple said that \u201cthe team is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Zhengyu \u2018Daniel\u2019 Qin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel was beloved at Apple and cared so deeply about his work and his colleagues,\u201d she added. \u201cOur thoughts are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose man who died in a boat collision last week was a software engineer at Apple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,11917,181,23,1914,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-475225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-golden-gate-bridge","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-san-francisco-bay","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}