Summary
David Liu is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services, currently shaping AWS Lightsail, the scalable platform for developers offering VPS, container services, managed databases, CDN distributions, load balancers, domains, and more. With nine years of experience across AWS, Amazon Go, Densify, and IBM, he specializes in building reliable, scalable distributed systems and cloud-native solutions. At AWS, he contributes to a platform that enables developers to deploy and scale workloads with resilience and simplicity. Earlier at Amazon Go, he built an end-to-end solution using AWS Simple Workflow Service to enable frictionless beverage purchases at the first Amazon Go-enabled Whole Foods store in Washington, DC, and created a fault-tolerant inventory backend scaled to 50+ stores. His IBM stints include leading the Debug Manager for secure remote debugging, serving as PSIRT lead for vulnerabilities, and driving onboarding and knowledge transfer across the team. He holds a Bachelor of Computing with a software design specialization from Queen's University and is based in Seattle, combining hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration.
9 years of coding experience