Summary
Xiao Liu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed and cloud-native systems across crypto, insurtech and telecommunications. Currently at Coinbase Institutional, he architects serverless, Kubernetes-backed production services and leads teams end-to-end from stakeholder alignment to reliable CI/CD delivery. Skilled in Go, test-driven development, and pragmatic agile practices, he emphasizes priority-setting and clarity as catalysts for shipping high-quality, maintainable code. Xiao combines deep systems thinking with hands-on implementation—often leveraging AI tools day-to-day to accelerate iteration and decision-making. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from UCL and has a track record of moving between fast-paced market data and algorithmic trading domains where latency, correctness, and scale matter. Outside core work he signals a playful technical curiosity (and an appetite for Sichuan recipes), reflecting a balance of rigor and personality.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
University College London
English, Chinese