Tim Liang
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Liang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed systems and Postgres at scale, currently building model-serving and ML infrastructure at Figma. He was a founding member of Figma’s databases group, leading a small team to design online partitioning workflows and a horizontal sharding data plane that kept the product reliable through hypergrowth. His background includes ML infrastructure and serving roles at Instagram and Google, plus early research on distributed drone swarms, which reflects a knack for real-time coordination problems. Based in New York, he combines deep systems-level expertise with practical product focus, moving from core database architecture to production ML deployment. Colleagues would describe him as someone who tackles existential scaling problems while learning new domains like model serving on the job.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (76)
twitch10
replay10
stream10
playback10
twitch-api10
youtube9
api9
vod9
chat9
streaming9
moments9
linux8
windows8
player8
indexer8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AngelThump/website
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:16 PRs, 157 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 10 months
reactjavascriptstreamingnodejsfrontend
TimIsOverpowered/twitch-recorder-go
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Record Twitch Live streams with chat
Contributions:19 releases, 65 commits, 75 pushes in 7 months
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