Michael Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Cloudera
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Liu is a senior software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building backend systems and production ML platforms. As a founding engineer at Verta he owned the Python client, deployed and operated SaaS and on‑prem Kubernetes stacks, and extended controllers and CI/CD to support model serving at scale. He has deep practical experience with Python 2/3 compatibility, model serialization, observability (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch), and maintaining robust test suites. His open‑source contributions include refactoring the backend of VertaAI/modeldb to unify save-like functionality and improve the API surface for ML model versioning. Now at Cloudera, he continues to focus on scalable, reliable infrastructure for data and ML workflows, bringing a pragmatic blend of product-minded engineering and hands-on operational troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Ohlone CollegeUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
python10
api-design8
git8
version-control8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
VertaAI/modeldb
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Open Source ML Model Versioning, Metadata, and Experiment Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:382 reviews, 716 commits, 1580 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions focused on refactoring the ModelDB platform's backend code, specifically addressing issues related to saving functionality by unifying and re-structuring the "save-like" functions. They also made multiple changes involving the codebase's internal architecture, including setting a dedicated area for the API to operate.
data-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningmodel-versioningmlops
VertaAI/modeldb-client
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 release, 550 PRs, 1124 pushes in 10 months
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