David Liu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid 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
6 years of employment as a software developer
Semiahmoo Secondary, Semiahmoo Secondary at International BaccalaureateBachelor of Computing, Specialization in Software Design, Bachelor of Computing, Specialization in Software Design at Queen's University
Github Skills (12)
fpga10
zynq10
microchip10
lattice10
yosys10
asic10
placement10
xilinx10
hardware10
vhdl10
aws9
development-kit9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
aws/aws-fpga
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Official repository of the AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 5 PRs in 10 months
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