Summary
Amy Liang is a Senior Backend Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web services and improving user-facing products across companies like Faire, Instagram, Facebook, and Zynga. She specializes in Kotlin backend APIs, SQL data modeling, and full-stack improvements—having shipped features from pick lists and tiered promotions to Instagram Web feed and dark mode. Comfortable working across languages and platforms (React/TypeScript, Java, GraphQL, Objective-C), she pairs product-facing impact with infrastructure work such as migrations and test stabilization. A University of Waterloo CS graduate who writes about engineering growth, she blends technical curiosity with cross-functional communication and a knack for turning operational problems into measurable product improvements.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Korean, Chinese