Jerry Liu
Software Engineer at Meta
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Liu is a software engineer focused on systems and infrastructure, currently working on load balancing and networking at Meta with a background from the University of Waterloo. With a decade of experience including internships at Facebook, Riot Games, Datadog, Shopify and others, he combines production-scale engineering with a strong testing and automation mindset. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Facebook's pyre-check, improving developer ergonomics through features such as color-coded error output and careful refactoring. Based in Toronto, he pairs practical, hands-on backend work with an interest in performance and reliability, and is actively seeking internship opportunities to explore new system-level challenges.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Victoria Park Collegiate InstituteBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
static-analysis10
type-checking10
type-check10
python10
typechecker10
testing10
software-quality9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/pyre-check
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Performant type-checking for python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:125 commits, 1 PR, 5 tags in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jerry made several contributions focused on improving the Pyre-check tool. Their work involved adding features such as color-coded error output to improve readability, and incorporating tests to ensure the functionality and reliability of the changes. The user's involvement extends to the refactoring of the codebase, specifically moving sharded files and parser code to new locations within the repository.
typecheckercontrol-flow-analysispythoncode-qualityabstract-interpretation
Shopify/ruby-mirror
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:349 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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