Chengyin Liu
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChengyin Liu is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience building product-facing web and mobile applications, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in San Francisco. He co-founded and scaled Slab to multi-million dollar ARR and profitability, leading engineering, support, and recruiting while shipping a TypeScript/React-based knowledge platform adopted by customers like Asana and Forbes. Chengyin combines hands-on implementation—authoring core client features and an integrations framework spanning 50+ enterprise tools—with company-wide operational rigor in hiring, mentoring, and performance processes. His earlier roles include founding-engineer work at Airbnb Plus and modernizing frontends at Backplane, where he helped pioneer early React adoption and complex real-time features. Comfortable across client-side architectures (React, GraphQL, Electron, React Native) and product strategy, he thrives at the intersection of design systems, developer experience, and scalable product delivery. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he prefers shipping elegant, testable components and has a track record of turning design-driven ideas into reliable, revenue-generating products.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at Wuhan UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (190)
testing10
svg10
apollo-client10
linting10
javascript10
react-native-web10
avatar10
react-component10
html-parser10
dates10
datepicker10
apollographql10
angular10
rustler10
typescript10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chengyin/Yahoo-Hack-U-GIF-Maker
Sep 2009 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 11 years 1 month
slab/elixir-formatter
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
mix format in your browser.
Contributions:42 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 4 months
browserelixirmixformattermix-format
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