Yifang Liu
Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYifang Liu is a software engineering manager based in Sunnyvale with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly around Kafka streaming pipelines and data infrastructure. She has progressed through individual contributor and technical lead roles at LinkedIn and AWS, now leading engineering efforts at LinkedIn since 2025. Her background blends deep systems engineering—cloud management and real-time data pipelines—with people leadership and delivery at scale. Trained at UCLA and Carnegie Mellon in electrical and computer engineering, she pairs strong academic foundations with hands-on production experience. Colleagues know her for translating complex distributed-systems requirements into reliable, operable platforms and for mentoring engineers through high-throughput data challenges. An understated strength is her pattern of returning to and advancing the same problem domains (Kafka/data infra), signaling both depth and long-term ownership.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
derived10
partition10
synthetic10
monitors10
latency10
leader10
loss10
kafka-cluster10
monitor9
broker9
producer9
apache-kafka8
auditing8
e2e8
kafka8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yifangl/testGit
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
linkedin/li-apache-kafka-clients
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
li-apache-kafka-clients is a wrapper library for the Apache Kafka vanilla clients. It provides additional features such as large message support and auditing to the Java producer and consumer in the open source Apache Kafka.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 10 commits in 3 months
apache-kafkakafka-consumerkafka-clientsadditionalapache
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