Yifan Liu
Software Engineer at IGG Canada
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYifan Liu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems for mobile games, currently at IGG Canada in Burnaby. He specializes in real-time services, designing RESTful and socket-based APIs, gRPC integrations, and event-driven architectures that support millions of users. Notable contributions include a nine-grid AOI map system that cut sync traffic by 60%, Redis-optimized leaderboards and guild systems, and read-write separation patterns with PostgreSQL for reliability at scale. He maintains CI/CD pipelines, enforces code quality through testing and reviews, and works closely with game designers and client teams in Agile workflows. A Simon Fraser University computer science graduate, he blends academic foundations with hands-on optimization of large-scale multiplayer features. Beyond standard backend work, he consistently focuses on reducing network load and decoupling services to improve real-time performance.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Simon Fraser UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yifanliu98/GetFit
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 22 days
yifanliu98/two-sigma-connect-rental-listin-inquiries
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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