Lu Liu
Staff Engineer at Life360
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLu Liu is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient distributed systems and real-time data platforms, currently driving engineering at Life360 in Toronto. He combines deep backend expertise in Scala, Java and Python with hands-on experience in Kafka, Spark, Cassandra and microservices, and has a track record of applying functional programming and containerization to improve fault tolerance. Previously at OANDA he led realtime streaming and financial technical-analysis services and built an industry-leading iOS charting engine, showing a rare cross-domain fluency from mobile to big data. Known for advocating Scala, Swift and fault-tolerant architectures, he also brings low-level systems familiarity (ZeroMQ, Zookeeper, DB2) and a pragmatic engineering mindset honed across finance and consumer tech.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Chinese
Github Skills (41)
swift8
gentoo8
programming-language7
java7
zipkin7
memcached7
json-document6
fault-tolerant6
libphonenumber6
thrift6
http6
finagle6
scala6
objective-c6
ios6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
luliu/swift-overlay
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Gentoo overlay for Apple's Swift programming language
Contributions:6554 commits, 7020 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
gentooprogramming-languageswift
luliu/luliu.github.io
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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