Summary
Youwen Liu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Washington, D.C., with five years of experience blending software development, data engineering, and applied machine learning. With an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics, he has built scalable ETL pipelines, productionized models in AWS SageMaker, and optimized large-scale financial datasets to deliver high-performing predictive systems (including a 0.94 AUC model). His background spans research and consulting roles at McKinsey and Morgan Stanley, where he automated real-time monitoring for hundreds of stocks and accelerated model development through Python and cloud tooling. At ADMISSIAN he combined Hadoop/Hive, AWS Glue, Athena, and CloudWatch to turn messy data into business outcomes, including a model-driven 150% sales uplift. He brings a quantitative lens from his mathematics training and a knack for turning complex, noisy data into actionable products that scale.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology at University of Cambridge
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The George Washington University
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics | Finance, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics | Finance at University of Maryland
Chinese, English, Japanese, French