Nan Liu
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Liu is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with three years of industry experience building and securing cloud-focused Linux systems, notably contributing security patches to the high-profile microsoft/azurelinux project. With a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and a Master's in Computer Science, she brings a rare blend of deep scientific research experience and practical software engineering—earlier roles include work on rates and inventory systems at Expedia Group and a research-intensive visiting scholar position at the University of Michigan. At Microsoft she focuses on CBL-Mariner, improving OS stability and remediating CVEs in components like libtiff, virglrenderer, cloud-init, and qemu. Her background as an academic and instructor informs a methodical, evidence-driven approach to debugging and security hardening that complements her hands-on backend engineering.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemical Engineering at Tianjin UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
c1710
linux10
os-development10
c1110
patch10
operating-system10
security10
qemu8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 37 commits, 115 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nan primarily focused on addressing security vulnerabilities and improving the stability of the `azurelinux` operating system. Their contributions included patching multiple CVEs, such as CVE-2022-2953 and CVE-2022-0175, which addressed security flaws in dependent libraries like `libtiff` and `virglrenderer`. They also worked on dependency issues related to `cloud-init`, ensuring the proper functioning of the operating system's initialization processes. Further work addressed CVE-2022-3872 related to qemu.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
liunan-ms/CBL-Mariner
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 28 branches in 8 months
vmsapplianceslinux-oslinuxedge
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