Jing Liu

San Francisco, California, United States

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Jing Liu is a seasoned software engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building cloud-native web applications, back-end systems, and big data pipelines. She brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, PHP, Perl, UNIX shell scripting, and virtualization, with a particular focus on resilient messaging and streaming systems. Jing has contributed meaningful fixes, features, and test automation to high-profile open-source Kafka clients (librdkafka, confluent-kafka-python, confluent-kafka-go), improving stability, OAuth/OIDC handling, and admin APIs. A motivated self-starter who enjoys connecting new technologies, she pairs strong academic foundations (MS in Computer Science from NYU and a Full Stack Nanodegree) with production-grade engineering discipline. Colleagues rely on her for troubleshooting complex rebalancing and consumer-edge cases as well as for clear, practical documentation and test-driven improvements.

10 years of coding experience

Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.5, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at New York University

Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer at Udacity

Chinese, English

Github Skills (22)

debug10

c-language10

admin10

python10

testing10

kafka10

librdkafka10

c1110

c1710

go10

api10

producer10

customer10

apache-kafka10

cprogramming-language10

Programming languages (5)

C#JavaCHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python

Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

Confluent's Kafka Python Client

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:2 releases, 30 reviews, 176 commits in 1 year 3 months

Contributions summary:Jing contributed primarily to the documentation and implementation of features related to the Confluent Kafka Python client. They added documentation for new admin API features like `NewTopic` and `NewPartitions`, and updated the documentation for `SerializingProducer` and `DeserializingConsumer`. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in the produce API documentation and addressed failed test cases for the Schema Registry. Finally, they also worked on updating the project version and made minor changes to configuration files, demonstrating a focus on feature enhancements and documentation updates.

pythonkafka-pythonconfluent-cloudpython-clientkafka-protocol

confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go

Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client

Role in this project:

Back-end & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:25 reviews, 12 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:Jing contributed to the development and testing of the Confluent Kafka Go client. They implemented features such as default parameter support for the AdminClient's CreateTopic function and also created a soak test to measure performance. Additionally, the user addressed rebalance events in the consumer for static membership and resolved related consumer issues. Their work involved modifying both the core Kafka client code and test files.

golanggolang-libraryapache-kafkaconfluent-cloudgolang-bindings

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