Kevin Liu
Principal Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Liu is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building data platforms and distributed systems across tech leaders like Microsoft, Stripe, and Amazon. He currently leads Microsoft’s efforts around Apache Iceberg and the Open Lakehouse ecosystem for OneLake and serves on the Apache Iceberg PMC after contributing fixes and Python/Java improvements to the project's filesystem and timezone-sensitive tests. At Stripe he helped develop data pipelines and monetization features using Iceberg, Trino, Spark, and Flink, and at Amazon he worked on ASR for Alexa Shopping, demonstrating breadth across infrastructure and ML-adjacent systems. Known for crossing language boundaries, his open-source contributions span both Python fsspec integrations and Java snapshot validations in a widely adopted project. Kevin combines hands-on engineering with community leadership, translating low-level patches into platform-level impact for large-scale data ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bronx High School of ScienceBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northeastern University
Latin, Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
ice10
apache10
python10
apache-iceberg10
fsspec9
javas8
java8
testing7
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 1 commit, 10 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Python-based components of the Apache Iceberg project, specifically focusing on improving the implementation of the `LocalFileSystem` using `fsspec`. The user also addressed an issue related to datetime tests, ensuring they functioned correctly regardless of the system's timezone. Furthermore, the user made several commits dealing with Java-based files, including adding and reverting snapshot summary and key validations. The contributions included the use of Java and Python across different components of the project.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
kevinjqliu/iceberg
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Apache Iceberg
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 5 months
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
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