Linqing Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLinqing Liu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on building scalable, research-driven NLP systems and code generation with LLMs. Currently at Databricks, Linqing transitioned from implementing practical code-generation products to broader engineering leadership on LLM-powered developer tooling. Their background blends deep research (PhD candidate at UCLNL P) and hands-on implementation, including a DeepMind internship where they built end-to-end retrieval-augmented language model stacks for trillion-token retrieval databases. Previous internships at Salesforce and Queen’s reflect expertise in controllable summarization and multi-task distillation for pretrained models. Based in Mountain View, they pair strong academic training from UCL, Waterloo, and Tongji with production-grade engineering across research and industry. A less obvious strength is their ability to move models from experimental prototypes to scalable training and evaluation pipelines that improve real-world knowledge-intensive task performance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics (Computer Science), Master of Mathematics (Computer Science) at University of WaterlooBachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Tongji UniversityUniversity College London
Chinese, English
Github Skills (38)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
likicode/likicode.github.io
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:176 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
likicode/My_Cute_Elevator
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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