Summary
Ling Liu is an engineering director and senior staff engineer with 15+ years building large-scale data and system infrastructure across search, social, fintech, logistics, and mapping. He has led teams from core crawler/indexer work at Yahoo to creating a graph database at LinkedIn and co-leading Uber’s AthenaX Flink-based streaming platform, consistently turning research-grade technologies into production-grade systems. At Alibaba/AutoNavi he directs 100+ engineers on an AI-centric, full-stack HD map platform that fuses deep learning, GIS, edge intelligence, and CI/CD to produce self-driving-grade map data. Known for bridging open-source communities and enterprise delivery, he combines representation-learning expertise with practical system design to accelerate real-time analytics and risk-control solutions. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings both hands-on algorithmic depth and large-scale operational leadership that few engineers sustain across such diverse domains.
9 years of coding experience