Summary
Charles Liu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems across AI personalization, cloud services, and embedded perception, currently shaping Copilot Personalization and Proactivity at Microsoft AI. His background spans product-facing roles at Verkada and AWS and infrastructure and tooling internships at Google and Parallel Systems, giving him a strong full-stack and systems-oriented skill set. He has shipped large-scale features—from camera fleet configuration for 300k+ devices to DynamoDB import tooling and automated code-coverage pipelines—while also contributing to research projects in AR/VR and sensor telemetry. Equally at home in Go, Python, TypeScript, and low-level firmware work, he blends pragmatic production engineering with curiosity-driven side projects like mechanical keyboards and music. Colleagues describe him as tenacious (“I’m gonna find the way”) and versatile, able to tackle both backend pipelines and real-time perception problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
South Pasadena Senior High School
Stanford University