Jeff Liu
Staff Software Engineer 2 at PayPal
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Liu is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and developer platforms, currently at PayPal in the Los Angeles area. He spent over a decade at NASA JPL designing search and observability solutions—architecting ElasticSearch-as-a-Service, running 120+ node Kubernetes clusters, and automating ops with Terraform, Ansible, Python and CI/CD pipelines. Known for a passion for automation and making others' lives easier, he pairs hands-on engineering with technical leadership across cloud, containers, and data indexing. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MBA, reflecting a blend of deep technical skill and operational/business acumen. Notably, he implemented document-level security for ElasticSearch via a custom HTTP proxy and built tooling that synchronizes RBAC between Kubernetes and ELK in near real time.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of RedlandsMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (10)
backup9
docker8
link-checker8
opensearch7
javascript7
elasticsearch6
plaid6
indexer5
http5
youtube4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jeffyuhaoliu/linkchecker
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
check links in web documents or full websites
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
links
jeffyuhaoliu/elasticsearch-dump
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 days
import-and-exportexportelasticsearch
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