Lirian Su
Engineering Lead at OpusClip
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLirian Su is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and leading high-performing teams, currently driving core engineering and AI feature delivery at OpusClip. He combines startup grit from a VP of Engineering role in the data/AI space with product-minded execution, routinely bridging business priorities and technical trade-offs to ship growth-driving features. A pragmatic polyglot—avid Python and Go contributor—he has extended widely used open-source projects like the WeChat Python SDK and implemented domain-specific tooling such as a Chinese holiday/workday calendar. Known for refactoring legacy systems into modern, maintainable services, he pairs deep technical contribution with people-first leadership across teams of ~30 engineers. He also holds an MBA from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and business acumen that informs his approach to instrumentation, monitoring, and business-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (22)
datetime10
python10
api-design10
calendars10
wechat10
datetimes10
wechat-mini-program10
api10
sdk10
weibo9
unit-testing7
unit-test7
par6
jekyll6
vim6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
LKI/chinese-calendar
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
判断一天是不是法定节假日/法定工作日（查看节假日安排）
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 139 commits, 52 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lirian primarily contributed to the `chinese-calendar` repository by adding functionality to determine Chinese holidays and workdays. Their work focused on modifying the `constants.py` file to include holiday and workday data, and updating utility files and unit tests to incorporate these changes. They implemented logic for checking if a given date is a holiday or a workday and added support for new years and features, demonstrating core back-end development skills within a Python-based project.
chinese-calendarcalendarchinese-holidaypythonworkdays
wechatpy/wechatpy
Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
WeChat SDK for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 25 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lirian primarily focused on implementing and extending the WeChat SDK for Python, as evidenced by the commits related to the WeChat Wxa (WeChat Mini Program) and message APIs. They added new features for code management, template messages, and subscription messages, enhancing the SDK's capabilities. Furthermore, the user incorporated functionality for WeChat card and invoice related APIs. The code changes involved modifications to existing API classes and adding new methods to interact with various WeChat services.
weixinpythonwechat-sdkweixin-sdksdk
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