Liam Gillies
Software Engineer Intern at Twilio Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Gillies is a software engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building and shipping software, currently interning at Twilio while pursuing a BS in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He has a track record of internships across startups and established teams—Ironclad, PatentPlus (where he led engineering efforts), and ML research at Virginia Tech—demonstrating versatility from machine learning research to product-focused development. Based in Palo Alto, he moves comfortably between backend systems and applied ML, and has coached coding for younger students, showing an aptitude for mentorship and teaching. Liam’s background suggests an ability to ramp quickly into new domains and take ownership of features end-to-end. He’s actively seeking growth opportunities beyond fall 2021 and brings both practical engineering rigor and a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gunn High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (14)
distributed-systems10
go10
postgresql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
cockroachdb10
sql10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
kubernetes9
java7
arangodb7
documentation5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liamgillies/cockroach
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:43 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
liamgillies/liamgillies.github.io
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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