Huisheng Liu
Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHuisheng Liu is a Principal Software Design Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington, with a long-standing career at Microsoft spanning roles in Core OS, storage, Bing, and shared platforms since 1998. He brings deep systems and storage expertise, having driven storage management, file system, and platform-level projects from hands-on engineering to principal-level design and delivery. Huisheng contributes to high-impact open-source work—helping harden RocksDB for Windows by fixing MSVC build issues, replacing unsafe APIs, and adding timestamp-aware iteration and free-space support—showing a practical focus on cross-platform reliability. His background combines rigorous academic training in computer science and computer engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Florida with 20+ years of production systems experience. Known for improving code safety and build robustness, he excels at untangling platform-specific complexity to deliver maintainable, high-performance storage solutions. He pairs low-level systems fluency with a track record of shipping durable infrastructure used at scale.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at University of FloridaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (9)
databases10
storage-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
windows9
memory-management9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/rocksdb
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 24 PRs, 98 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Huisheng primarily contributed to the RocksDB database library by addressing compilation issues, enhancing code safety, and implementing new functionalities. They fixed compilation errors on MSVC, replacing unsafe sprintf functions with snprintf, and implemented the GetFreeSpace function for the Windows environment. Furthermore, the user addressed build issues related to jemalloc and implemented support for timestamp-aware operations within the database iterator, enhancing data retrieval capabilities.
persistent-storagebigtablefast-storagelsm-treedatabase
hliu18/rocksdb
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:30 PRs, 127 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 5 months
persistent-storagenosql-databasedatastorefast-storagelsm-tree
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