Changyuan Lyu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChangyuan Lyu is a Senior Software Engineer at Google based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience bridging deep academic research and production software. After eight years focused on physics during graduate study at Purdue, he transitioned to software engineering and progressed from intern to senior engineer within Google's engineering organization. He brings a researcher's rigor to large-scale systems and a track record of shipping reliable code in both academic and industry settings. Comfortable moving between theory and implementation, he leverages his PhD training to tackle complex problems and optimize solutions for production constraints. Colleagues describe him as someone who combines curiosity-driven experimentation with pragmatic engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy at Purdue University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (107)
colorize10
kvm10
linux-distribution10
autocomplete10
system10
typesetting10
embedded10
linux10
electron-react10
latex10
virtualization10
golang10
beancount10
boost10
userland10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/alioth
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Experimental KVM-based type-2 hypervisor in Rust implemented from scratch.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 351 PRs in 11 months
Lencerf/hugo-theme-tiny
Oct 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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