Louis Liu
Co-Founder at REV1 (YC W26)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLouis Liu is a software engineer and founder with 9 years of experience building production-grade systems at the intersection of robotics, planning, and machine learning. After contributing to Supercharger and Robotaxi planning at Tesla and publishing ML research at the University of Toronto, he co-founded REV1 to develop AI tools tailored for mechanical engineers. He is fluent in C/C++, Python, and CMake, and blends low-level systems skill with applied ML research to ship practical engineering workflows. Based in San Francisco and a YC W26 founder, he combines startup grit with experience at AWS and fast-moving product teams. A detail often overlooked: his mechanical engineering background gives him a rare ability to translate physical design constraints into software-first AI solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
W26, W26 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechanical Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
preprocessor10
c-language9
c-compiler9
compiler6
valgrind6
boost6
synchronization6
mach4
macos3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
s311354/Doxygen_practice
Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
s311354/Verilog_Mode
Feb 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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