Robin Liu
Staff Software Engineer at GE Grid Solutions
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Liu is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of formal software experience and over two decades in power systems and firmware engineering at GE Grid Solutions, where he designs and implements real-time firmware architectures for GE UR series protective relays. He brings deep domain expertise in embedded systems, real-time constraints, and protection relay functionality grounded in an electrical engineering degree and early career work as an electrical engineer and R&D manager. Robin has applied systems-level thinking to both firmware and tooling improvements, including back-end contributions to Google's GAPID graphics debugger to enhance timestamped trace replay—showing comfort crossing from low-level device firmware to developer-facing debugging tools. Known for pragmatic architecture that values determinism and performance, he mentors teams and drives long-lived, safety-critical product roadmaps. Based in Canada, he combines field-proven protection relay experience with modern software practices to bridge hardware, firmware, and tooling in mission-critical grids.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology
Github Skills (6)
vulkan10
go10
replay9
debugging9
golang8
graphic8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/gapid
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Graphics API Debugger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 144 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to adding a profile command to query timestamps when replaying traces within the graphics API debugger. This involved modifying the Vulkan API to include timestamp queries, which required changes in the `query_timestamps.go` file to enable timestamp retrieval during replay. Additional work involved fixing presubmit check failures and various code improvements related to the VM and image primer functionalities to improve performance. This suggests the user worked on improving the debugging and replay capabilities of the Gapid tool.
graphicgpudebuggergolanggles
RenfengLiu/vulkan_test_applications
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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