Leo Liang
Something New at CipherOwl Inc
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo 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.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
3reputation
193reached
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2questions
Github Skills (12)
service-mesh10
go10
service-discovery10
linkerd10
dns9
cloud-native9
finagle9
javas8
java8
htaccess6
html6
css6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
linkerd/linkerd
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Old repo for Linkerd 1.x. See the linkerd2 repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
linkerdcloud-nativeservice-meshservice-discovery
leozc/nbdev_sample
Dec 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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