Ying-chuan Liu
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolYing-chuan Liu is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 13–14 years of hands-on experience building mobile apps, backend services, and data pipelines across startups and large tech companies. As Co-Founder of a stealth startup, he now applies AI to semiconductor defect detection after leading advertiser product engineering at Pinterest where he managed managers and ~30 engineers to improve ad creation, review, billing, and integrations. He has a track record of founding new business lines and teams—launching DoorDash Drive, building DoorDash’s Android team, and shipping international ads at Pinterest within months. Known for turning manual workflows into automated systems, he cut ad review times from days to minutes and improved operational metrics at Google Express. Based in Sunnyvale and holding advanced CS degrees from Taiwanese universities and Carnegie Mellon, he blends deep systems engineering with product intuition and cross-functional execution. Unexpectedly, his background spans low-level firmware and NAND/WinCE work to high-level AI-driven manufacturing solutions, showing rare breadth across the stack.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University
Github Skills (2)
campus9
silicon5
Github contributions (5)
kateliu/voice
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
:microphone: React Native Voice Recognition library for iOS and Android (Online and Offline Support)
Contributions:12 pushes in 12 days
reactvoice-recognitionmicrophonereact-nativerecognition
kateliu/configs
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 days
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