Chiwei Liu
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiwei Liu is a Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems that tackle global cybersecurity challenges. At Palo Alto Networks he has designed and shipped large-scale distributed platforms— including a GKE-based web crawler handling 1000+ QPS, a geo-aware global proxy, and LLM-driven threat discovery pipelines—bridging research and production. He blends a Data Informatics background from USC with hands-on backend and systems work, applying ML and graph visualization to surface complex threat relationships. Earlier roles span high-performance embedded and metrology software to crypto exchange data pipelines, reflecting a knack for performance optimization and data engineering. Colleagues rely on him to turn exploratory research into operational tools that scale across regions and threat landscapes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Data Informatics, Master’s Degree Data Informatics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree Photonics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Photonics Engineering at Yuan-Ze University
Github Skills (7)
prompt-injection8
supply-chain-security8
ai-security7
gateway6
security-scanner6
golang5
ai-agent3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brian93512/USCLifeblog
Apr 2018 - Oct 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
brian93512/Movie-Recommendation-System-INF-553
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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