Gaojie Liu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaojie Liu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience building scalable back-end systems at major tech firms including LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and Baidu. He progressed through engineering ranks to senior staff at LinkedIn, demonstrating sustained impact on large-scale production services and team leadership. Gaojie contributes to open source, notably improving the Voldemort Dynamo-style store by hardening HDFS data pushes, metrics, logging, and connection handling—work that reflects deep expertise in distributed storage and reliability. His background in computer software engineering from Wuhan University underpins a pragmatic, systems-first approach to performance and operational correctness. Colleagues would describe him as a steady problem-solver who combines hands-on coding with architectural thinking to reduce failure modes in complex pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Wuhan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
javas10
voldemort10
hadoop10
java10
hdfs9
data-storage9
build-automation8
multithreading8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 15 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gaojie primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Voldemort project, focusing on improving the Hadoop store builder and the Admin Service. Their work included enhancing the logging messages, implementing new metrics for HDFS data pushes, and optimizing the store/schema verification process. Additionally, the user addressed connection leaking issues and fixed compilation errors within the project.
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
gaojieliu/tehuti
Nov 2019 - Mar 2024
A simple metrics library.
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
metricscountermetrics-library
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