Jason Liu
Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Liu is a software engineer based in Waterloo with nine years of experience building fast, reliable systems and a track record of internships at leading trading and cloud firms including Hudson River Trading, Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Dropbox, and AWS. Comfortable across full-stack and systems work, he applies algorithmic rigor and software design principles (SOLID, design patterns, BDD) to deliver production features and optimize backend communication. He has hands-on experience with React, Python test automation, GraphQL-like query design, and performance-minded database optimization. A University of Waterloo CS student alumnus who moved quickly from early roles at a fintech startup to production engineering at top-tier firms, Jason blends curiosity-driven experimentation with disciplined engineering practices. Unusually, his background includes coaching youth table tennis, reflecting a patient, strategic approach to mentorship and team development.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
monitoring10
observability10
distributed-tracing10
collector10
api10
sdk10
opentelemetry10
logging10
tempo10
telemetry10
otel10
python9
opentelemetry-collector9
distro9
aws9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JasonXZLiu/CompetitiveProgramming
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:140 commits, 111 pushes in 3 years
JasonXZLiu/ForwardFuelWebsite
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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