Ken Liao
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKen Liao is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, currently working on Amazon MQ at AWS to make open-source message brokers easy to deploy. He has strong roots in infrastructure and backend analytics from roles at Google (leading a Play Services module and shipping features across Android products) and as a founding engineer at YC-backed Mutable, where he focused on ML/AI tooling to boost developer productivity. His early work spans robotics, embedded systems, and networking—optimizing ROS pipelines and implementing high-efficiency data loggers—giving him a rare blend of cloud-scale backend expertise and low-level systems chops. Based in Surrey, BC, he’s passionate about open source and GenAI, and consistently drives product-focused engineering that spans full-stack delivery and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering Option, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering Option at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
jms10
stomp10
messaging10
python10
amqp10
broker10
apache10
perl10
java10
php10
csharp10
activemq10
hacklang9
ruby9
mqtt9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kenliao94/activemq
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ
Contributions:13 reviews, 8 PRs, 75 pushes in 11 months
kenliao94/UberShooter
Feb 2015 - Feb 2023
A webapp Hack for University of Toronto Hackathon 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 2 months
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