Liwei Liu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Moloco
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolLiwei Liu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with a decade of deep domain expertise in adtech, specializing in real-time bidding, auction dynamics, and end-to-end bidding optimization. At Google he led gBid & AwBid efforts, managing multiple engineering subteams and driving integrations with external exchanges to grow ARR, deprecate waterfalls, and resolve publisher escalations. His work spans first-price bidding, internal auction design, bid optimization models, and cross-platform performance engineering for AdMob/AdSense/AdX. Now at Moloco, he continues to scale high-throughput bidding systems while mentoring teams to deliver robust, low-latency solutions. Trained as a PhD in computer vision from Tsinghua, he brings a research-informed approach to production systems and a knack for modeling auction competition that isn’t obvious from most engineering resumes. Based in Palo Alto, he combines technical leadership with hands-on system design that drives measurable business impact.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Vision at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (10)
bot-framework10
bots10
azure10
chat10
adaptive-cards10
nodejs10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
conversational-ui10
chatbot10
conversational-ai10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.
Contributions:21 commits, 24 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
conversational-aibotchatazure-bothighly-customizable
MicrosoftDocs/customer-insights-pr.fr-fr
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.