Summary
Maizi Liao is a software engineer specializing in distributed databases with a decade of backend and cloud systems experience. Based in Waterloo, she applies rigorous engineering from her Masters in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo to production-grade database and backend services. Her recent work at Huawei Canada builds on earlier cloud and backend roles at Sumo Logic, Rakuten, and Mespere LifeSciences, reflecting steady progression into large-scale distributed systems. Colleagues would describe her as a practical craftsman of IT who focuses on reliability, performance, and maintainability. She brings a researcher’s attention to detail combined with hands-on delivery experience across enterprise and startup environments. Outside of work she blends academic depth with pragmatic engineering, making her comfortable translating complex designs into dependable implementations.
10 years of coding experience