Obey Liu
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolObey Liu is a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Boston with 18 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and developer frameworks, currently driving integration testing and reliability for YouTube’s global video infrastructure. He previously worked on next-generation air travel platforms (ITA/Amadeus) and has deep expertise in test frameworks, performance-minded architecture, and production-scale tooling. A former Debian Developer and Google Summer of Code contributor, he combines open-source stewardship with practical systems engineering across Linux packaging, high-performance databases, and ML-backed code-quality tooling he built during a Google internship. Based in Cambridge, MA, Obey is as comfortable reducing boilerplate via code generation as he is optimizing world-scale video serving—aiming to make systems both faster and easier to evolve.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Engineer, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleMP*, Mathematics and Physics, MP*, Mathematics and Physics at Lycée Louis le GrandResearch Master (MoSIG), Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web, Research Master (MoSIG), Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
English, French, Chinese, GermanGithub contributions (5)
arthurliu/caddy-docker
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Docker container for Caddy
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 months
caddydockerdocker-container
arthurliu/golinks
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Just another Google-like go/ links service, deployed on GCP and integrated with G Suite!
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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