Summary
Isa Liang is a Senior Software Engineer in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building backend infrastructure, data-driven systems, and generative AI features at Google, currently focused on YouTube Creation. With an MS in Computer Science and AI from Stanford and research experience in distributed consensus and AI-assisted care, she bridges rigorous research methods and production-grade engineering. Her timeline spans internships at high-profile companies (Airbnb, PagerDuty) to core product work on YouTube Ads, Shorts Ads, and recent LLM quality and performance efforts. Known for combining algorithmic thinking and analytics, she often surfaces subtle reliability and performance trade-offs when shipping large-scale ML-backed features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese