Rui Liu
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRui Liu is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and scalable ML platforms, currently leading ML infrastructure work at Reddit after driving Uber’s Michelangelo efforts. He specializes in high-throughput inference and model operations, having built a Kubernetes-based deployment system that supported 1,000+ weekly rollouts and an online prediction service handling peaks near 20M QPS. Passionate about the intersection of systems engineering and generative AI, he focuses on developer-facing frameworks that make LLM-powered features production-ready. Rui combines deep platform engineering with product-minded integrations—experience dating back to fintech and enterprise roles—bringing a pragmatic, system-level view to long-term AI adoption challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Ottawa
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
376reputation
92kreached
7answers
5questions
Github Skills (45)
notebook10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
api-requests9
tensorflow9
cuda9
gpt8
inference8
amd8
api-client7
python-interactive7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rliu054/leetcode
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 76 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 9 months
rliu054/pocketcdn
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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