Li Liu
Tech Lead, Senior Architect, And Product Manager at Kuaishou Technology
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Liu is a tech lead, senior architect, and product manager with a decade of experience building high-performance video and AI systems, currently driving VPU architecture and heterogeneous compute deployments at Kuaishou in Silicon Valley. He combines deep academic credentials (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on hardware and algorithm design—delivering a VPU that improved HEVC quality by ~30% over x265 medium while enabling >20 TOPS AI and dramatic TCO reductions. His background spans video codec research and hardware reference designs at Realtek, Marvell, and FutureWei, with practical wins in HDR processing, SCC extensions, and super-resolution. An active open-source back-end contributor, he has added tracing and protocol support to prominent Apache projects such as SkyWalking and ShenYu, improving gateway observability and gRPC/dubbo integrations. Colleagues describe him as a cross-disciplinary operator who translates cutting-edge research into production silicon and large-scale services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Electronic Engineering, BA, Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityUniversity of Missouri
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
skywalking10
shen10
observability10
apidoc10
distributed-tracing10
apache10
java10
apm10
javas10
api10
api-gateway10
spring-boot10
logging10
grpc10
microservices-application9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/skywalking-java
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
The Java agent for Apache SkyWalking
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Li primarily contributed to the Apache SkyWalking Java agent, focusing on integrating support for Apache ShenYu (incubating) gateway. Their work involved creating plugins for ShenYu versions, incorporating tracing capabilities within the gateway, and ensuring proper context propagation. The user's contributions also extended to supporting gRPC calls within the SkyWalking ecosystem, improving the tracing of generic client calls. Furthermore, the user's commits included the addition of support for Apache ShenYu's dubbo, grpc, sofarpc, motan, tars protocols, alongside debugging and fixing issues in existing integrations.
agentapmskywalkingjava-agentlogging
apache/shenyu
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Apache ShenYu is a Java native API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion and API governance.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 15 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Li contributed to the Apache ShenYu API Gateway project by implementing features, addressing bugs, and making optimizations. Their work included removing and updating disruptor providers, adding a log plugin for the shenyu-agent, and fixing small bugs within the agent itself. They were also involved in synchronizing the sorting of plugins and addressing issues related to big data in Websocket. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the agent's functionality and stability.
api-gatewaykong-pluginproxyshenyugrpc-proxy
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