Summary
Yuchen Liu is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems, currently working at Google after contributing to core finance infrastructure at Amazon. He specializes in object-oriented design and cloud-native solutions, having re-architected a high-throughput Contra Cogs billing system, designed SNS/SQS workflows for 10K TPS peaks, and managed AWS resources via CDK. Yuchen pairs backend engineering with operational ownership—resolving security incidents like Log4j under tight SLAs as an on-call engineer. His background spans financial systems, Java/Spring web platforms, and early work in ML-driven database behavior analysis, reflecting a pragmatic blend of performance, reliability, and data-informed design. Based in Seattle, he holds a CS master's from Penn State and brings cross-cultural experience from major tech and banking environments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.5 at Tongji University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Penn State University