Summary
Qiming Liu is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and backend agents that turn real-time local data into actionable travel itineraries. Based in New York, he launched Naviya to help solo travelers engage more deeply with a city's rhythms by searching, analyzing, and planning event routes into personalized trips. His background spans transportation analytics, large-scale product databases (7000+ manufacturers, 500k+ products), and embedded systems research, reflecting comfort across web, data engineering, and hardware-adjacent projects. Qiming blends startup grit—having participated in NYU startup bootcamps and customer discovery—with academic rigor from NYU and Beijing Jiaotong University, and a cross-disciplinary stint at UC Berkeley. He’s equally fluent building production services for mobility and crafting consumer-facing experiences that turn transient local signals into meaningful travel moments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Finance, Theater performance, Computer Science, Finance, Theater performance at University of California, Berkeley
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Huashan Middle School
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Rail Traffic Signaling and Control, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Rail Traffic Signaling and Control at Beijing Jiaotong University
Chinese, English