Vawait Liu
Algorithm Engineer(Recommendation)
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVawait Liu is an Algorithm Engineer specializing in recommendation systems with 11 years of experience building large-scale personalization and data-recommendation cores at leading short-video platforms. He has held senior engineering and architecture roles across TikTok, Kuaishou, and ByteDance, bringing deep production experience in recommendation pipelines and system design. A competitive programmer with ACM/ICPC and Asia Regional Codeforces finalist credentials, he combines algorithmic rigor with practical engineering to optimize relevance and performance under heavy traffic. Based in San Jose, he blends a strong academic background in information security from Wuhan University with hands-on product impact, and is known for translating contest-grade algorithmic insights into robust, deployable recommendation features.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Security, Bachelor's degree, Information Security at Wuhan UniversityGithub contributions (5)
vawait/ACM
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:134 commits, 86 pushes in 1 year
vawait/json_diff
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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