Summary
David Liu is a software engineer with 5+ years of experience building resilient, customer-facing backend systems across retail and cloud platforms, currently contributing to AWS Lightsail. He has shipped scalable services at Amazon Go that supported 50+ stores and led cross-functional reviews with senior leaders to align KPIs and reduce operational incidents. At AWS Lightsail he focuses on developer-focused infrastructure—instances, managed databases, containers, CDN and networking—bringing product-aware engineering to platform services. Earlier roles at Densify and IBM sharpened his skills in REST APIs, performance optimization (improving billing data performance by 85%), and automation for regression testing and debug tooling. Based in Seattle, he combines distributed systems engineering with a knack for operational reliability and documentation-driven knowledge transfer. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, metrics-oriented, and effective at turning operational pain points into scalable solutions.
2 years of coding experience