Kelvin Liu
Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelvin Liu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and scalable web platforms from prototype to production. With a Master’s in Computer Science from UIUC and a strong background in distributed systems, he has delivered e-commerce and BIM solutions that leverage event-driven patterns, search, sharding, and caching to meet high-concurrency demands. He’s comfortable across the stack—authoring Spring Boot microservices, Go/TypeScript serverless functions, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS—while integrating tooling like RocketMQ, Elasticsearch, ShardingSphere, and Docker. At Gensler (as a Google contractor) he combined secure authorization, automated webhooks, and 3D model embedding to streamline construction cost workflows, and at a stealth startup he implemented Redis-backed distributed locks and Snowflake IDs for flash-sale scaling. Kelvin also contributes to ops-focused open-source projects, improving documentation and configuration for notable platforms such as Confluent’s cp-demo, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends hands-on engineering with a knack for operationalizing complex systems into maintainable products.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
kafka10
confluent10
docker10
dockers10
documentation10
security9
cloud-infrastructure9
automations8
automation8
ksqldb8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-demo
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Confluent Platform Demo including Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, Control Center, Schema Registry, Security, Schema Linking, and Cluster Linking
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kelvin primarily contributed to the documentation, settings, and configuration files within the cp-demo repository. Their commits focused on merging branches, updating documentation related to the Confluent Cloud setup, and modifying settings, including bucket and versioning information. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the overall project setup and documentation for users.
linkingconfluent-platformkafka-connectapache-kafkasasl
kelvinL3/Genre-Classifier
Apr 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 1 month
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