Eric Liang
Founder & CEO at MaximTop
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Liang is a founder and CEO with 17 years of experience specializing in instant messaging and large-scale distributed systems, currently leading MaximTop to deliver one-click, multi-cloud IM deployments. He previously served as Chief Architect at Easemob and IM Technologist at Weibo, where he designed incremental-sync IM protocols and built services supporting tens of millions of concurrent users and million-per-second fan messaging. Eric combines product leadership with deep hands-on backend expertise—his open-source work includes stabilizing the msgpack-rpc Go library by fixing protocol and reflection issues. He has a track record of turning loss-making units profitable and delivering private or public IM clouds that deploy in minutes at a fraction of typical cost. Based in Beijing, he blends entrepreneurial drive with practical systems-level engineering across cloud, IM, and blockchain-for-chat experiments.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Beijing Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
rpc10
go10
messagepack10
refactoring9
error-handling9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
msgpack-rpc/msgpack-rpc
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
MessagePack-RPC is an inter-process messaging library that uses MessagePack for object serialization.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on fixing bugs and refactoring code within the msgpack-rpc library. They addressed issues related to package name mismatches, and refactored code to replace deprecated functionalities with newer versions. The user also made updates related to reflect and error handling in the server and client components, improving the library's robustness. These changes involved Go code and MessagePack protocol handling.
messagepackobject-serializationrpc
maxim-top/floo-android
May 2020 - Dec 2022
蓝莺 IM SDK，安卓原生库
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 20 pushes in 2 years 7 months
androidsdkjavalanyingim
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