Yu Liu
Software Engineer at TikTok
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Liu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working at TikTok and pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at USC. He has a strong full-stack orientation with hands-on experience in backend systems — including Kafka kernel development at Alibaba Cloud — and frontend development, driven by algorithmic problem solving. His background spans research (Chinese Academy of Sciences), education tech, and cloud infrastructure, reflecting versatility across industry and academia. Based in San Jose, he emphasizes continuous, exponential learning and creative solutions to challenging problems. Outside of work he stays reachable through WeChat (yuxuan101325), hinting at a collaborative, networked approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Tianjin University
Github Skills (38)
javascript10
android-view10
nodejs10
react10
ios9
objective-c9
math9
css9
dictionary9
macos9
swift9
cocoapods8
python8
xcode8
android8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lypeer/Crowdsource
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:132 commits, 74 PRs, 101 pushes in 29 days
Yasic/Noop.io
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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