Summary
Jerry Liu is an engineering manager specializing in AI with 16 years of technical experience and 9+ years scaling teams and systems from startups to FAANG. He has led high-impact ML efforts—most notably driving Meta integrity systems that processed 500M+ daily events and detected high-risk harmful content with ~95% accuracy—and built multiple startups from 0 to 1. At Character.AI and other ventures he’s grown teams, instated rigorous engineering practices, and delivered measurable product improvements like +16% day-1 retention and +10% time-in-app. As founder/CTO of EMNIST he designed cost- and token-efficient LLM pipelines, a personality-extraction model, and a distributed async architecture handling 100K+ API calls. He combines deep production ML infrastructure expertise (feature stores, reproducible pipelines, privacy controls) with a knack for turning engineering metrics into business outcomes—recently driving 30% month-over-month user growth. Based in New York and Berkeley-educated, he’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers, shaping orgs, and shipping reliable, scalable AI products.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
French, English, Chinese, Spanish