Rui Liu
Software Developer at Self-employed
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolRui Liu is a seasoned software developer and architect with 12+ years focused on cloud-native systems, APM, OpenTelemetry, and distributed transactions, currently based in Beijing. He led IBM’s Instana OpenTelemetry integration and created widely used agents and data-source projects (including ODCD and the Unified Agent), earning multiple IBM awards as a multinational technical lead. Equally comfortable in Java and Golang, Rui has deep hands-on experience across C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Android, and shell scripting, and has deployed production systems on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. His background includes mission-critical architecture for banks, telecoms and utilities (CNAPS II, core banking systems, CMCC projects) and authoring widely adopted middleware tools like EasyCICS. Now independent, he publishes open-source work (notably OJR to simplify OpenTelemetry) while researching AI models and practical ML ops techniques such as RAG, agents, fine-tuning and localized model deployment. Fluent in English and experienced leading multinational teams, he combines pragmatic engineering with a long track record of enterprise impact.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Peking University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
programming-language10
instrumentation10
interpreter10
golang10
go10
opencensus10
java-agent10
compiler9
distributed-tracing9
opentelemetry9
collector9
java9
telemetry9
odin9
boost8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
instana/otel-dc
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
ODCD (OpenTelemetry Data Collector Drivers) is a set of standalone OpenTelemetry receivers for databases, systems, and applications.
Contributions:2 releases, 38 reviews, 40 PRs in 9 months
liurui-software/mmlog
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 22 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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