Eric Liao
Senior Software Engineer at ZeroClick
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Liao is a Senior/Staff software engineer with 13 years of experience who has scaled distributed systems from zero to 8 million users and now focuses on production-grade GenAI infrastructure. He led architecture and migrations at Allergan Data Labs—evolving serverless event-driven systems into Kubernetes microservices, designing event-sourced transactions and saga patterns to avoid distributed locks, and executing zero-downtime migrations for millions of users. Eric is pragmatic about reliability: his hard-won lessons from high-traffic incidents taught him to design for failure modes, eventual consistency, and deep observability rather than chasing theoretical perfection. He builds developer-facing GenAI tooling—multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and an MCP-powered terminal editor—and writes about LLM architecture to a growing audience. A former CS lecturer who’s taught AI, databases, and web development to 1,000+ students, he pairs technical leadership with a knack for clear documentation and mentorship. Based in Irvine, he’s seeking Staff/Senior roles at Series A/B companies tackling scalable LLM systems, agentic platforms, or developer tools.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at California State University, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (70)
tomcat-jdbc10
hapi9
api9
graphql-schema9
resolvers8
apollographql8
priority-queue8
tomcat8
knexjs8
express-graphql8
restify8
graphql8
css8
spec8
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rcliao/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Jan 2025
Dotfiles – (neo)vim, tmux and zsh configuration
Contributions:1 PR, 231 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
neovimzsh-configurationtmuxneovim
csula/cs1222-spring-2018
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:94 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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