Yu Liu
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Liu is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of industry experience building large-scale distributed systems and AI infrastructure, currently working on News Feed at Microsoft. He brings deep domain expertise from Google Ads and extensive hands-on background in LTE and satellite PHY-layer prototyping at Qualcomm, where he led cross-platform test tool development and significant performance optimizations. Yu combines rigorous academic training (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering) with practical R&D, automation, and benchmarking skills, enabling end-to-end ownership from architecture to monitoring. He has a track record of improving test and simulation tooling—such as MSIM and eKPI—that materially accelerated regression cycles and system validation. Comfortable leading small specialist teams, he pairs strong analytical problem-solving with clear cross-functional communication to deliver complex features under tight schedules. Based in Beijing, he blends telecom research pedigree with modern AI/feature-store platform experience, making him adept at bridging low-level systems engineering and cloud-scale product delivery.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary B.S. Applied Mathematics, Secondary B.S. Applied Mathematics at Beihang UniversityPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yluiu/azure-docs
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
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MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 years 7 months
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