Richard Liang
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Liang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and platform tools across major tech companies. He has worked on high-impact teams at Snap, Stripe (Tax Reporting), and Facebook (Human Ops Platform Scaled Infra), and began his career with impactful internships at Google, Cisco, and others. Richard is comfortable across Java, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and has hands-on experience optimizing backend systems—at Google he cut latency by at least 70% for a URL recommendation tool using Bigtable and parallel C++ processing. Based in New York, he combines large-company product sensibility with a systems-oriented engineering background rooted in a Computer Engineering degree from UC San Diego. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who moves between backend performance optimization and platform delivery, and who has repeatedly delivered measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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53kreached
10answers
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Github Skills (54)
kotlin10
smooth-scrolling10
caching10
animation10
image10
leakcanary10
photo10
image-loading10
scrolling10
gif10
java10
android-library10
showdown10
rotation10
scale10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
liangricha/Pokemon-Showdown-Client
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 14 branches in 17 days
monshowdown
liangricha/uCrop
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
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