Summary
Junkai Liang is a software engineer with 6+ years of experience building high-performance systems, currently working on middleware and fault-handling for autonomous driving at WeRide in Los Angeles. He combines strong systems research from a productive stint at a national key laboratory—where his work on CruiseDB was accepted to ICDE 2021—with practical product delivery for L3 ADAS and L4 robotaxi platforms in collaboration with Bosch. Skilled in C++, Python, distributed storage and databases (RocksDB, Ceph, PostgreSQL), he focuses on low-latency, reliable solutions for safety-critical environments. A former NOI/IOI instructor and contest organizer, he brings deep algorithmic intuition and experience mentoring competitive programmers. He holds a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from USC and a BE from Renmin University, and is notable for translating research prototypes into production-ready components for major companies like SenseTime, Tencent, and Alibaba Cloud.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, 90/100, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Technology, 90/100 at Renmin University of China