Alva Liu
Staff Engineer - AI Search at Legora
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlva Liu is a Staff Engineer focused on AI-driven search and recommender relevance with nine years of experience building scalable ML systems. Based in Stockholm, she has held progressive roles at Spotify where she advanced from Machine Learning Engineer to Senior ML Engineer before joining Legora to build the future of legal work. She holds a Master’s in Machine Learning from KTH and a CS background from the University of Melbourne, blending academic rigor with product-first engineering. Her work emphasizes relevance at scale—turning user signals and large datasets into practical ranking and recommendation improvements. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions, she combines research-oriented thinking with hands-on deployment experience across high-traffic production systems. Outside work she’s a builder who enjoys translating data into impact, which shows in her steady career focus on applied ML for search.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyNatural Sciences, Natural Sciences at Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium OdenplanThe University of Melbourne
Swedish, English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (2)
javascript9
open-source9
Github contributions (5)
alvayliu/Fashion-GAN
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
alvayliu/Language-Identification-with-CNN
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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