Pan Liu
Software Engineer at ByteDance
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolPan Liu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance systems at major tech companies including ByteDance, Meta, Lyft, Apple, and Google. Based in Cupertino, he specializes in storage software and hardware—an area he demonstrates passion for through notable open-source contributions to SPDK and fio, improving iSCSI/NVMe components and RBD performance and stability. Pan brings a backend-focused, systems-first mindset that emphasizes robustness, logging, and error handling, and he has a track record of turning low-level fixes into production-grade improvements. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University and pairs enterprise experience with open-source craftsmanship, often tackling subtle bugs that prevent crashes and boost I/O efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northeastern University
Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
c1710
error-handling10
c1110
system-programming10
performance-optimization10
iscsi10
nvme10
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spdk/spdk
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Storage Performance Development Kit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pan primarily contributed to bug fixes, code improvements, and feature additions within the SPDK storage library. Their work involved addressing cppcheck errors, correcting comment issues, adding a daemon mode for the iSCSI target, and implementing a wrapper for calling functions without thread affinity. They also made modifications to logging and error handling, enhancing the robustness of the system. The user's contributions touched upon iSCSI and NVMe components.
development-kitvagrantperformancestoragevirtualbox
axboe/fio
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Flexible I/O Tester
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 23 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pan primarily focused on enhancing the performance and stability of the rbd (RADOS Block Device) engine within the fio I/O testing framework. Their contributions included optimizing I/O retrieval using the `poll()` function and `rbd_poll_io_events`, which likely improved the efficiency of I/O operations. Additionally, the user addressed a critical bug related to the handling of zero-sized rbd images, preventing potential crashes. Further, the user contributed to code maintainability through the removal of duplicate code and clarified output information.
testingflexible
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