Shan Liu
Founder at Project Sienna
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShan Liu is a versatile backend engineer and builder with 11 years of experience and a strong focus on Node.js, Java, and cloud-native microservices. Based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on system design with DevOps expertise—Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and CI/CD tooling—to ship resilient services and payment systems for both fintech and web3 use cases. He’s founded Project Sienna to build on-chain invoicing and has multiple hackathon wins and grants in the web3 space, reflecting an aptitude for rapid prototyping and product-minded engineering. Shan’s background spans risk and fraud systems at Wealthfront and eBay to core platform work at BitGo and acquisition-stage startups, giving him deep experience in secure, production-grade financial infrastructure. He contributes to open source, mentors in the Ethereum community, and holds an MEL in Dependable Software Systems from UBC, combining academic rigor with entrepreneurial drive. Notably, he pairs full-stack JavaScript fluency with multi-language chops (Python, Go) and practical ops skills that let him move projects from prototype to scalable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Continuous Study - Fundamental Investment Course, Stanford Continuous Study - Fundamental Investment Course at Stanford UniversityStartup School Certificate, Startup School Certificate at Y CombinatorMaster in Engineer Leadership MBA - MEL in Dependable Software System, Master in Engineer Leadership MBA - MEL in Dependable Software System at The University of British ColumbiaDual Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree Computer Science; Applied Mathematics, Dual Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree Computer Science; Applied Mathematics at Stony Brook University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (41)
aws-lambda-layer6
api5
step-functions4
verify4
nodejs4
rest4
rest-api4
python3
blockchain3
ethereum3
state-machine3
merkle-tree3
smart-contracts3
aws-step-functions3
solidity3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shanni/LC_Algo
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:215 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Shanni/MVP-apache-maven-hibernate-mysql-website
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
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