Derek Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Advantest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Liu is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping high-throughput, extensible software across embedded, GUI, and distributed systems. He specializes in low-level protocol and accelerator driver development (notably UFS and PCIe) and has led Linux-based protocol driver design integrated tightly with FPGA firmware. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, C# and Java, Derek brings deep expertise in multithreading, networking, parser/tooling (ANTLR, Flex/Bison) and performance debugging to ensure availability, latency and scalability targets. He’s delivered production-grade test systems and customer-facing APIs at Advantest, while earlier roles blended product leadership, team building and automation for embedded and enterprise software. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Derek often bridges firmware and software boundaries to validate hardware at register level—an uncommon strength that shortens development cycles.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Zhengzhou University
English
Github Skills (28)
geometry9
matlab9
computer-graphics9
geometry-processing9
python8
cluster-computing8
libigl8
computational-geometry8
autodiff7
machine-learning7
cpp7
tensorflow6
plugin6
mesh-processing5
closest5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HTDerekLiu/CubicStylization_Cpp
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 11 pushes in 8 months
HTDerekLiu/BlenderToolbox
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Some simple Blender scripts for rendering paper figures
Contributions:127 commits, 5 PRs, 144 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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