Al Liu
Rust Software Engineer (Futures Department) at Binance
Singapore
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Top SchoolAl Liu is a Rust software engineer with 7 years of experience specializing in high-performance distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure, currently working on futures at Binance in Singapore. He has deep expertise in Rust macro programming, async/runtime-agnostic design, lock-free data structures, and network protocols (TCP/UDP/QUIC), and has authored widely used libraries including a Rust implementation of Ristretto (~140k downloads) and a WASM-friendly SWIM gossip protocol. His background includes implementing embeddable key-value stores, RPCs, and GraphQL-to-SQL tooling for subgraph functionality, demonstrating an ability to ship production-grade, customizable components from systems-level primitives to integration layers. Colleagues rely on him for designing flexible trait/component systems and squeezing latency and allocation costs out of critical paths, and he prefers offers above USD 140k.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Auckland
Github Skills (200)
burp10
multithreading10
sstable10
url-parsing10
interpreter10
scheduling10
async-await10
mvcc10
lru10
event-loop10
concurrent10
bigint10
synchronization10
newsletter10
privacy10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
al8n/memberlist
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
A highly customable, adaptable, runtime agnostic and WASM/WASI friendly Gossip protocol (SWIM) which helps manage cluster membership and member failure detection.
Contributions:2 releases, 95 PRs, 547 pushes in 1 year 8 months
asyncasynchronous-programmingdistributed-consensusdistributed-consensus-algorithmsgossip
al8n/serf
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
A highly customable, adaptable, runtime agnostic and WASM/WASI friendly decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration that is lightweight, highly available, and fault tolerant.
Contributions:1 release, 33 PRs, 151 pushes in 11 months
async-stdasynchronous-programmingconsensus-algorithmdistributed-systemsgossip-protocol
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