Patrick Liu is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems in Python, Go, and Java, currently contributing at Addepar in New York. A University of Waterloo computer engineering student by training, he has progressed from internships at Apple, Alloy, and others to full-time engineering, bringing practical experience across fintech and consumer platforms. He has deep involvement with Hack the North—advancing from backend developer to co-director and now advisor—demonstrating both technical chops and event leadership. Patrick enjoys publishing code on GitHub (pcjl) and focuses on pragmatic, maintainable backend services that support data-heavy applications. Notably, his trajectory shows a pattern of early responsibility and repeated returns to the same organizations, indicating strong relationships and impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Contributions:14 releases, 5 PRs, 131 pushes in 13 days
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