Peter Liang
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Liang is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack products at high-profile tech companies, currently contributing to Figma after roles at Google and Spotify. Trained in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, he combines front-end UX sensitivity with back-end reliability from early work at IBM and startups to product-scale systems. He has a track record of shipping consumer-facing features and platform improvements across design, music, and search domains, and is comfortable navigating both fast-moving startup environments and large engineering organizations. Based in New York, he brings practical, end-to-end development experience informed by internships and early web work that helped shape his pragmatic approach to engineering. Notably, his career shows repeated transitions into product-focused teams, suggesting a strength in translating user needs into robust technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (56)
xmpp10
brokers10
stun10
matrix10
messaging10
chat10
jabber10
broker9
erlang9
sip9
voip9
pubsub9
server9
php9
ejabberd9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liangdefeng/ejabberd
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Robust, Ubiquitous and Massively Scalable Messaging Platform (XMPP, MQTT, SIP Server)
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 1 month
scalablesip-serverxmpptelecommessaging-platform
liangdefeng/mod_pushoff
Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
Send empty push notifications for offline queue messages in ejabberd
Contributions:4 PRs, 93 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
emptypushsms-messagesiftttejabberd
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