Summary
Liam Pierce is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-impact systems from startup products to enterprise database performance teams. Currently on Oracle’s Real-World Performance team, he works with customer VLDB workloads and designs NL2SQL benchmarks to drive multi-order-of-magnitude performance improvements. He’s also the founder and lead engineer of Demon, a bootstrapped SaaS serving literary publishers with over 250,000 customer records and $1.2M in business-critical sales data. His background spans machine learning, distributed data pipelines, and full-stack systems—including a 14TB self-labeled audiobook dataset extension and a production voice-cloning model—giving him a strong data-and-ML-first approach to performance problems. Comfortable in C++, Python, PyTorch and backend at scale, he pairs hands-on implementation with product sensibility and customer-driven benchmarking. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex datasets into reliable, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science at Newton South High School