Lang Liu
Research Assistant at Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLang Liu is an applied scientist and PhD candidate in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology with a decade of software engineering experience spanning startups and large tech firms. He currently applies research-driven approaches at AWS while maintaining research and teaching roles at Illinois Tech, bridging theory and production systems. Previously he helped build product features as a founding full‑stack engineer and shipped scalable services at Tencent and other companies, progressing from engineer to manager. With a background that started in civil engineering, he brings a pragmatic systems perspective to programming languages and system programming research. Colleagues would describe him as a hands-on researcher-engineer who balances rigorous academic inquiry with delivering real-world, user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering at Central South University
Github Skills (200)
http-api10
postgresql10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
cloud-native10
foundationdb10
oltp10
scale10
sql10
high-performance10
database10
mysql10
java-client10
tidb10
java10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LangInteger/learning
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:133 commits, 140 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
LangInteger/lang-poetry
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
人面不知何处去，桃花依旧笑春风
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years
java
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.