Xiaozhen Liu
Senior Software Engineer - Datastores Access
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaozhen Liu is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building large-scale backend and infrastructure systems, currently focused on unified datastore access at Meta. She has a strong Google Cloud background, having driven core Document AI infrastructure and optimized AI/ML runtimes on GKE, and contributed to prominent open-source projects like google-cloud-node where she led TypeScript code-generation and build automation efforts. Xiaozhen blends systems-level engineering with developer tooling and release automation, evidenced by migrating libraries to TypeScript, fixing lint/build pipelines, and improving synth tooling across samples. Comfortable across distributed data planes, storage nodes, and SDKs, she brings an operator’s mindset to production reliability and performance. Trained in electrical and electronics engineering at Carnegie Mellon and Tongji University, she pairs rigorous academic foundations with hands-on impact in cloud-scale products.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tongji UniversityMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (19)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
apidoc10
typescript10
gcp10
code-generation10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
devops9
automation9
backend9
automations9
documentation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-node
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:74 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiaozhen focused on migrating the library to Typescript code generation, a substantial undertaking that involved refactoring code, fixing linting issues, and integrating build processes. They were also involved in updating the `synth.py` files, indicating they were likely part of the team that automated code generation, and incorporating changes for system tests. The user's commits indicate work in both back-end and build-related tasks.
google-cloudnodejs
GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Node.js samples for Google Cloud Platform products.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Xiaozhen primarily focused on migrating the project to TypeScript code generation and refactoring existing code. They were instrumental in updating build tools, including Synthtool and fixing build/linting issues, demonstrating strong proficiency in managing the build and release process. Their contributions also encompassed updating dependencies, sample tests and general code cleanup. The user's work impacted multiple areas of the project, including API and library functionality.
google-cloud-platformnodejsgoogle-cloudapicloud
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