Christopher Liu
Co-Director Backend Engineer at Penn Labs
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Liu is a software engineer and trading intern at Jane Street with five years of experience building backend systems and leading teams. Currently pursuing an MSE in Computer and Information Science at Penn, he co-directed Penn Labs where he led 60+ engineers, designers, and business developers to build campus-wide web and mobile products used by nearly the entire undergraduate body. His internships at Meta, Apple, and Jane Street reflect a pattern of shipping privacy-sensitive and production-grade systems, while his TA role demonstrates a strong foundation in algorithms and mentoring. Equally comfortable in high-throughput trading environments and student-facing product development, he’s known for turning complex feature requirements into scalable backend solutions and for attention to user privacy and institutional collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stuyvesant High SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering - MSE, Computer and Information Science, Master of Science in Engineering - MSE, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
flatpak10
music10
listings9
django-rest-framework9
rest-framework8
django8
launcher8
react8
celery8
gnome8
django-rest8
vala7
jekyll7
rest-api7
api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Clue88/metis2
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:15 releases, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
sugarlabs/musicblocks-launcher
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Music Blocks launcher for Flatpak
Contributions:25 releases, 2 reviews, 21 commits in 11 months
linuxgnomelauncherflatpakgtk4
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