Summary
Jialun Lyu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building backend and microservice systems, currently contributing to Play Search infrastructure at Google from Palo Alto. He has a strong Java and Spring background, supplemented by Python, Node.js, and hands-on experience with large-scale data tools like Hadoop and Hive from his work at PayPal. Jialun has strengthened reliability and observability across services—implementing distributed tracing with OpenCensus/Jaeger and improving test coverage and migration tooling at SAP SuccessFactors. He focuses on practical, production-ready solutions: refactoring alert handlers, rebuilding indexes for transaction scanning, and shipping developer-facing tooling to simulate jobs. Comfortable navigating both code and customer-facing incident analysis, he combines academic rigor from UC San Diego with a pragmatic, start-to-scale engineering mindset. Colleagues might notice his self-deprecating GitHub bio belies a disciplined engineer who thrives on solving messy, high-throughput problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Tianjin University