Leo Liu
Software Engineer at Sierra
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Liu is a software engineer with six years of experience building large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems, currently working at Sierra after a multi-year tenure as Staff Software Engineer at Databricks. He was a core developer and product owner for Facebook’s push notification delivery pipeline and fanout systems handling hundreds of millions of requests per minute and rapid 100M-user broadcasts. His background includes deep protocol and performance work at Akamai—optimizing HTTP/2, stream prioritization, and runtime memory monitoring—complemented by graduate study in computer science at USC. Comfortable across system design, performance tuning, and production reliability, he repeatedly delivers read- and write-optimized architectures for latency-sensitive services. Based in California, he blends academic rigor (PhD student status on GitHub) with hands-on engineering at top-tier infrastructure teams. Colleagues know him for tackling protocol-level complexity and shipping robust, scalable pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (5)
benchmark5
machine-learning4
quantization3
web-application3
activitypub1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmliu206/LIC_TCM
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
jmliu206/TCM.github.io
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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