Alex Liu
Senior Software Engineer at DataStax
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Liu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed big-data platforms, currently focused on DataStax Enterprise where he has driven releases from DSE 2.x through 6.7 and authored Spark-Cassandra SQL integrations and an AlwaysOn SQL service. He combines deep systems expertise across Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Solr, Presto and graph tech with practical production delivery—having contributed upstream to Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop, Presto and the Spark Cassandra Connector. Based in Chapel Hill, Alex excels at integrating open-source components into cohesive enterprise offerings and has a track record of shipping analytics, search and graph features at scale. His background spans high-throughput backend systems, VOIP/IVR platforms and event tracking, reflecting a blend of low-latency engineering and big-data architecture.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of TorontoBE, Civil Engineering, BE, Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (24)
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
cassandra10
r10
big-data10
jdbc10
java10
scala10
sql10
gremlin8
graph7
graph-database7
tinkerpop7
datastax-enterprise6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexliu68/spark
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
riptano/spark-jobserver
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
REST job server for Apache Spark
Contributions:15 PRs, 38 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
apache-sparkrest
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