Sitian Liu
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSitian Liu is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building real-time services and polished UIs across startups and large companies. He has led front-end and full-stack initiatives—from embeddable chat widgets and self-service React platforms to Java backend frameworks—at companies including Drift, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Cruise, and now Databricks. Known for bridging product, design, and engineering, he drives developer productivity, cross-team alignment, and scalable architecture while mentoring teams. Beyond shipping features, he has a knack for turning complex simulation and network data problems into intuitive visual tools, reflecting a systems-minded approach informed by an MS in Computer Science.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Massachusetts
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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javascript
top-5%
babeljs
top-5%
async-await
top-5%
arrow-functions
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
css-transitions10
gundb10
material-ui10
bundler10
serverless10
browser10
service-worker10
toast10
api10
json10
static-site-generator10
commonjs10
ssg10
splitting10
nodejs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
goldensunliu/major-colors
Aug 2018 - Feb 2022
color quantization using kmeans+++ for clustering and CIEDE2000 algorithm for color distance
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 6 months
color-quantizationciede2000kmeans-clusteringcolor-distancedistance
goldensunliu/sound-for-spotify
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Discover musical listening preferences Explore genres and their algorithmically-generated playlists Powered by Spotify Data
Contributions:68 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
discovergenreslisteningexplorespotify
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