Summary
Lu 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