Howard Liu
Deputy General Manager at SU ONE
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Liu is a seasoned leader blending 11 years of operational and technical experience across commercial real estate and software engineering, currently serving as Deputy General Manager at SU ONE in Shenzhen. He previously directed leasing and management for a 300,000 m2 luxury retail project within a 1.4 million m2 complex, demonstrating large-scale program and stakeholder management. Complementing his business background (Master’s in Business Administration from Sun Yat-Sen University), Howard brings hands-on engineering chops from internships at Alibaba Cloud OSS, PingCAP and Tencent WXG and notable open-source contributions. His GitHub work spans full-stack UI/translation improvements for UNIT3D and backend systems for distributed databases and autoscaling in TiKV and the TiDB operator, reflecting a rare mix of customer-facing product sense and distributed-systems reliability engineering. He is adept at translating operational requirements into scalable technical solutions and has practical experience adding monitoring and autoscaling hooks for production clusters. Based in Shenzhen, he combines strategic commercial leadership with active, pragmatic contributions to cloud-native infrastructure projects.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Sun Yat-Sen University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
translation10
laravel-mix10
tidb10
torrent10
internationalization10
distributed-systems10
translater10
laravel10
php10
localization10
prometheus10
go10
translate10
subtitle10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pingcap/tidb-operator
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
TiDB operator creates and manages TiDB clusters running in Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 12 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Howard contributed to the TiDB operator by implementing new features and extending existing ones. Their work includes adding labels for TiDB servers, supporting the PD auto-scaling API, and constructing PD strategy requests according to autoscaler specifications. They also refactored monitor syncing logic and worked on creating and deleting autoscaling clusters.
golangtidbclustersoperatorkubernetes
tikv/pd
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Placement driver for TiKV
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the `tikv/pd` repository, specifically focused on improving the core server logic. They implemented features related to region management, including checking region terms and handling heartbeats, which is critical for distributed system consistency. The user also added Prometheus client functionalities for autoscaling, demonstrating a focus on operational aspects and monitoring. Furthermore, they refined error logging throughout the cluster package.
placementtikv
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