Summary
Yang Liu is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building high-scale backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines. At LinkedIn since 2016 he has progressed from job search backend services to leading China-specific features and now staff-level platform work, routinely working with Java, Hadoop, and offline/online data infrastructure. His background includes building Android test frameworks at Google and low-level C firmware software at Marvell, giving him a rare blend of systems, testing, and distributed-data expertise. He focuses on reliability and scalability for services handling high QPS, and brings a master's in Networked Systems from UC Irvine to bear on complex architecture and performance trade-offs.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English, Chinese