Yao Liu
Technical Lead at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYao Liu is a Technical Lead in the Greater Seattle Area with 8 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. At Google he leads a team developing the internal service mesh that powers Google Cloud Platform and Google APIs, bringing deep expertise in microservices, performance, and operational reliability. Previously he built microservices orchestration and scaling platforms for Azure AD at Microsoft and high-performance screening systems at Intel, demonstrating a consistent focus on low-latency, resilient architectures. He has a strong CS foundation—data structures, algorithms, and design patterns—with hands-on fluency in C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python. A practical systems thinker and mentor, he blends rigorous academic training from Texas A&M and Beihang with production-proven engineering across major cloud providers. Notably, his background spans both high-throughput engineering and developer-facing platform work, making him effective at bridging infra engineering and API-driven product needs.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.8 at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.9, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.9 at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (17)
aip10
api10
ethereum10
blockchain10
optimizer9
checker9
optimization9
api-authentication9
javascript8
google-api7
oauth6
authentication6
cli5
proxy5
ssl5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yaoliugg/enterprise-certificate-proxy
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Repository for the Enterprise Certificate Proxy project.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 5 months
shinfan/credential-as-a-proxy
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:13 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 days
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