Lex Liu
Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Golang) at Ubiquiti Inc.
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolLex Liu is a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Golang, Kubernetes, and Linux with over a decade of software development experience and a recent focus on IoT controller services. He has repeatedly driven scalability and efficiency—redesigning partner integration to cut onboarding time by 83%, doubling messaging throughput, and slashing cloud costs while enabling near-instant production rollouts. Comfortable leading cross-functional efforts, he bridges product and engineering to deliver resilient, low-maintenance systems across e-commerce, payments, and IoT domains. A pragmatic systems thinker, Lex has deep experience with networking and kernel-level work from earlier roles and a knack for turning operational pain points into automated, high-frequency delivery pipelines. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he combines hands-on engineering with consensus-building to keep teams aligned on complex distributed systems.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science and Information Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology
Github Skills (10)
protobuf7
netflix7
golang7
fault-tolerance6
http6
latency6
fault6
grpc6
hystrix5
microservices4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cs-lexliu/practice-event-sourcing
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A project for practicing Event Sourcing
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
dddevent-sourcingcqrspracticingmicroservices
carousell/Orion
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Orion is a small lightweight framework written around grpc/protobuf with the aim to shorten time to build microservices at Carousell.
Contributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
golangaimprotobufgrpccarousell
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