David Liu
Software Engineer at Coinbase
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Liu is a software engineer with eight years' experience specializing in cloud platform engineering, containerization, and developer experience. He has led cross-cloud migrations and Terraform-based IaC at scale—replatforming Yahoo’s Location APIs onto AWS and GCP with Kubernetes and Docker—and now builds build-and-release tooling on Coinbase’s Platform Team. Comfortable across DevOps, SRE, and CI/CD tooling, he has improved orchestration, observability, and cost efficiency using Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, and Artifactory. A University of Chicago-trained CS/HCI and data-focused economist, he pairs user-centered thinking with systems-level engineering. He also teaches and mentors—having instructed HCI, usable security, and programming to students—bringing a knack for translating complex infrastructure into usable developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science with a Specialization in HCI, Economics with a Specialization in Data Science, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science with a Specialization in HCI, Economics with a Specialization in Data Science at University of ChicagoStuyvesant High School
Github Skills (7)
api8
server7
todolist3
todomvc3
nodejs2
vue2
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ga4gh/htsget-refserver
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Reference server implementation for the GA4GH HTSget API standard.
Contributions:210 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 months
ga4ghapihtsgetserver
xngln/dotfiles
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:14 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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