John Liu
Engineering Manager at Discord
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Liu is an engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and leading high-performance teams at consumer-scale platforms including Discord, Lyft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon. He progressed from intern roles to staff engineer and now manages engineering at Discord, blending deep technical judgment with people leadership and product-focused delivery. At Lyft he served as tech lead for the Lyft Pink team, demonstrating experience shipping subscription and growth-oriented features, while at Discord he’s transitioned into broader organizational leadership. Trained in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, he brings a systems-minded approach to complex distributed systems and user-facing product work. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who scales both code and teams, with a career arc that emphasizes hands-on technical depth alongside growing managerial scope.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Richmond Hill High SchoolBASc, Engineering Science, BASc, Engineering Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (43)
discord10
amazon-dynamodb10
api-documentation10
api10
dynamodb10
discord-bot10
amazon10
documentation10
pythonic9
aws9
buildpack8
python8
development-environment8
virtual-environment8
linter8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johnliu/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 pushes in 3 years 4 months
johnliu/boxcutter
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Sets up my mac.
Contributions:27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
dotfilesmacosdmgmac
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