Yuan Liu
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorYuan Liu is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across Microsoft, Uber, and Stripe, where he now focuses on AI/ML strategy within the Machine Learning Foundations org. He has moved between hands-on engineering and multi-level management—most recently transitioning from Engineering Manager of Managers back to an individual contributor role to concentrate on technical strategy and product impact. Based in Seattle and trained at Tsinghua University, Yuan blends deep systems experience with practical ML deployment know-how. He writes about engineering, business, and management at lyncredible.com, and maintains a hacker mindset outside work as a "part-time hacker" on GitHub. Notably, his career arc shows a pattern of scaling teams and then returning to craft complex technical solutions, highlighting both leadership and execution strengths.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (51)
microsoft10
css10
linux10
vim-plugin10
onedrive10
office36510
hyper10
html10
macos10
shell10
react10
cli10
powerline9
docker-image9
javascript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Lyncredible/onedrive
Sep 2021 - Apr 2025
#1 Free OneDrive Client for Linux
Contributions:23 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
onedrive-clientlinuxonedrive
Lyncredible/influxdata-docker
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Official docker images for the influxdata stack
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
dockerinfluxdatainfluxdbgrafanadocker-images
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