Summary
Scott Liu is a Software Development Engineer II with eight years of experience building low-level and systems software at Amazon, blending C/C++ and x86 assembly expertise with Python and SystemVerilog knowledge. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UIUC and an MCDS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, where he also taught machine learning, reflecting both strong theoretical grounding and practical teaching experience. At Amazon he progressed from intern to SDE II, contributing to customer-facing Alexa features and production-quality business logic informed by metrics and A/B testing. Based in Hong Kong but with a U.S. education and career footprint, he brings a global perspective to distributed teams and large-scale product delivery. Notably, he pairs hardware-oriented skills with data-driven software practices, making him comfortable across firmware-adjacent code and cloud service implementation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Computational Data Science Computer Science, Master of Computational Data Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese