Julius Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulius Liu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redmond with 11 years of experience building robust back-end systems and shipping production-quality features. He contributes to high-profile open source projects, including the Rust repository where he extended Windows filesystem metadata support by adding change_time retrieval, and to GB Studio where he enhanced game logic and optimized proximity-based event systems. Known for pragmatic, test-driven improvements, Julius balances low-level systems work with developer-facing features that improve reliability and usability. His mix of systems programming and game-engine contributions shows an ability to move between performance-sensitive code and higher-level application logic.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (24)
filesystem10
javascript10
event-handling10
wp-api10
meta10
typescript10
metadata10
winapi10
file-operations10
fileio10
typescript-types10
data-handling10
rust10
typescripts10
game-development10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Julius's contributions focused on extending the Rust standard library's file system functionalities. They added a feature to retrieve the `change_time` attribute for files on Windows, enabling the tracking of metadata changes. Their work involved modifying the `fs.rs` and `windows/fs.rs` files to incorporate this new functionality. Further commits updated documentation and fixed minor compilation issues related to the refactored type.
crategarbage-collectionrustreliablecompiler
chrismaltby/gb-studio
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Julius primarily contributed to the game logic and event system of the GB Studio project. They implemented a "distance from actor" control flow event, allowing for conditional execution based on actor proximity. Furthermore, the user optimized the distance calculation and added testing capabilities for the newly added features and implemented variable support for the distance check. Additionally, the user added support for multiple operators in the distance checks.
2d-gamegameretrogamemakerdrag-and-drop
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