Yang Liu
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYang Liu is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience building high-throughput advertising and targeting systems at LinkedIn and Yahoo. He was a founding member of LinkedIn’s Bring Your Own Data / Custom Audience effort, delivering scalable match and lookalike pipelines serving tens of millions of members via UI and API with near-real-time SLAs. His background spans distributed systems, search, and big data—having built NRT scoring engines, tuned Elasticsearch clusters for 10K QPS, and implemented low-latency event pipelines. A hands-on problem-solver, he also maintains clear, educational algorithm solutions on GitHub, reflecting a continuing focus on clean code and algorithmic rigor. Trained in electrical and computer engineering, he combines academic depth with a track record of shipping production systems that bridge data science and advertising engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Thesis-based, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Thesis-based, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
algorithms10
data-structures10
dynamic-programming10
data-structure10
java10
binary-search9
linked-list9
backtracking9
mopub6
uiimage6
ios6
nodejs6
elasticsearch6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FreeTymeKiyan/LeetCode-Sol-Res
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
Clean, Understandable Solutions and Resources for LeetCode Online Judge Algorithm Problems.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Algorithm Implementer
Backend Developer & Algorithm ImplementerContributions:583 commits, 89 PRs, 465 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yang contributed solutions and implemented algorithms for LeetCode problems. The commits showcase the user's focus on providing clean and understandable code, particularly for data structures and algorithms. The user's contributions cover a wide range of problems in areas such as linked lists, binary trees, and dynamic programming. The user is actively involved in providing solutions to algorithm problems and resources.
leetcodeonline-judgeproblemsleetcode-solutionsclean
FreeTymeKiyan/freetymekiyan.github.io
Jun 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:193 commits, 150 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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