Summary
Ruishan Liu is a Principal Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and scalable backend systems, currently leading platform work at Palo Alto Networks. He has deep hands-on expertise in Python and Go, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP/AWS, and distributed data systems including Spanner, BigTable, Cassandra, Redis, and Pub/Sub/Kafka. At Palo Alto Networks he evolved WildFire’s cloud infrastructure to reliably ingest and analyze customer samples at scale, pairing security domain knowledge with production-grade engineering. Trained at Stanford (M.S. Electrical Engineering) and grounded in rigorous algorithmic work from an earlier C++/CV internship, he blends systems thinking with practical optimization. Passionate about learning (GitHub: "learn happy, learn more"), he favors emerging cloud technologies and pragmatic automation to reduce toil and improve observability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, 91/100, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, 91/100 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.9/4.3, Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.9/4.3 at Stanford University
Chinese, English