Summary
Linyu Shi is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-scale distributed systems for payments, notifications, and e-commerce at companies like NVIDIA, TikTok, Cash App, and Twitter. She specializes in backend architecture, workflow orchestration, PCI-compliant payment integrations, and ledger/bookkeeping platforms using Java, Scala, Kotlin, Kafka, and cloud data stacks. At Cash App she helped design a high-scale bookkeeper system; at Twitter she drove large infra upgrades and mentored engineers; at TikTok she focused on payout systems and capital-loss prevention. A Microsoft MVP and SharePoint engineer by background, she brings a security-conscious mindset to product-facing financial systems. Based in Denver, she blends rigorous academic training in computer and electrical engineering with hands-on delivery across startup and hyperscale environments. Peers describe her as the kind of engineer who makes complex distributed systems simpler without sacrificing robustness.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science - BS 信息科学, Bachelor of Science - BS 信息科学 at East China University of Science and Technology
University of Missouri
Chinese, English