Weiqi Liu
Practice Lead at Ministry of Attorney General
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolWeiqi Liu is a Practice Lead based in Toronto with nine years of experience modernizing public-sector data and analytics platforms. He combines hands-on engineering (ETL, Azure, Databricks, Power BI, Python, SQL) with technical leadership to migrate legacy systems to cloud-native pipelines, cutting delivery times from weeks to hours and automating dozens of recurring reports. Fluent in English and Mandarin, he bridges technical and stakeholder needs across ministries, having led migrations from on-prem warehouses, SharePoint, Cognos and WebSphere into Azure and Microsoft 365. A former Data Resident and open-source contributor, he has improved accessibility and UI in the widely used CKAN data portal and automated COVID-19 dashboards that reduced manual effort by over 80%. His background in financial computing and information systems gives him strong quantitative and statistical instincts that inform pragmatic, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Financial Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Financial Computing at University of LiverpoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Information Management and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Management and Information Systems at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityMaster of Information, Information Systems and Design, Master of Information, Information Systems and Design at University of Toronto
French
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Github Skills (10)
html10
accessibility10
ckan10
user-interface10
python10
css9
javascript8
api7
open-data6
catalog5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Weiqi primarily contributed to improving the user interface and accessibility of the CKAN data portal. Their work included adding and modifying aria labels for improved accessibility, fixing form label errors, and enhancing the user experience by fixing the skip navigation link. They also made general UI improvements in the form of added HTML elements and modified existing elements. In addition, they performed a merge operation, indicating involvement in code integration and potentially codebase maintenance.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
bblwq/OINP_Monitor
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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