Leo Liang is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 14 years building cloud-native systems, data platforms, and ML infrastructure across companies from Microsoft and AWS to Cruise and Coinbase. He has led high-impact teams—scaling OfferUp’s platform engineering and co-founding Cruise’s ML and ground-truth platforms—to accelerate model iteration and production reliability. At Coinbase he headed data platform and analytics efforts for Web3, and his recent work includes back-end contributions to the Linkerd service mesh improving routing and service discovery. Based in Los Altos, he blends hands-on engineering with venture activity (Venture Partner/Advisor) and community leadership as chairperson of a major AAPI leadership organization. A builder at heart, he repeatedly moves projects from prototype to production scale and actively invests in early-stage Data, AI, and blockchain infrastructure founders.
Old repo for Linkerd 1.x. See the linkerd2 repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 81 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Leo primarily contributed to enhancing the Linkerd service mesh, specifically focusing on improvements related to routing and service discovery. Their work involved modifying the `PathIdentifier` to preserve trailing slashes in HTTP requests and integrating stack parameters into the announcer configuration. Further contributions include fixing issues related to DNS resolution and SRV record lookups for service discovery. These changes aimed to improve the reliability and functionality of Linkerd's core routing and service discovery mechanisms.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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