Jia Liao
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJia Liao is a senior software engineer and numerical mathematician with 10 years of experience building high-performance simulation and virtualization software across C++, CUDA, MPI, and Python. He has driven core features in large codebases—from a physics-based radar engine and ASAM OpenSCENARIO simulator to Multipass VM manager enhancements such as non-blocking servers and parallel downloads—balancing low-level performance engineering with pragmatic API design. Comfortable in multidisciplinary, international teams, he brings a researcher's rigor from a PhD background to production engineering, frequently refactoring legacy code and automating workflows to boost developer productivity. He has a strong track record in parallel algorithm design, numerical methods and data structures, and has picked up Rust while contributing to open-source projects and user-facing issue resolution. Based in the Netherlands, Jia combines academic depth with hands-on systems expertise, often turning whiteboard solutions and LeetCode-style puzzles into practical, high-performance implementations.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational Mathematics, Master's degree Computational Mathematics at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (40)
libvirt10
container10
hyper-v10
qemu10
windows10
linux10
virtual-machine10
multipass10
ubuntu10
vdi10
virtio10
virtualbox10
macos10
hyperkit10
ruby9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
georgeliao/Card_deck
Feb 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 4 months
georgeliao/pVBARMS
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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