Yukun Liu
Software Engineer at Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYukun Liu is a pragmatic software engineer with 7 years of experience building full-stack systems and improving developer-facing tooling, currently based in Chicago and working at Motorola Mobility. He combines backend expertise (including database integrations and middleware in Rust) with front-end polish, having contributed UI and UX improvements to notable open-source projects like the Dioxus framework and the Lapce editor. Earlier, he built and dockerized microservices, analytics tooling and CI-driven deployments for a high-traffic web product during an internship, cutting analytics and deployment times dramatically. A fast learner and collaborative team player, he has shipped production features across languages and stacks—from SQLx/Postgres middleware to editor plugin UIs—and also focuses on small but impactful fixes like API examples, UI spacing, and window APIs. His GitHub contributions reveal a taste for both systems-level work and thoughtful user-facing details, reflecting an engineer who balances correctness with usability.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.81, Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.81 at Binghamton UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Macau University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (17)
postgresql10
text-editor10
async10
ui-design10
desktop10
http-server10
code-editor10
blazor-webassembly10
rust10
webassembly10
developer-tools10
authorizations9
authorization9
html9
web-framework9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DioxusLabs/dioxus
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 96 commits, 30 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Yukun primarily contributed to the example calculator application within the Dioxus framework. Their work involved debugging, fixing, and enhancing the calculator's functionality, including correcting calculation logic and improving the user interface. Further contributions included implementing the ability to open links in a browser and adding more window APIs for better control. The user also worked on code formatting and made improvements to the display, bool attribute whitelist, and other window functionalities.
iosreactjsweb-desktopcssgui
lapce/lapce
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yukun primarily focused on enhancing the UI of the Lapce code editor's plugin panel. Their work included adding a "plugin load failed" message, changing the color of the "warn" status, and refactoring the UI for improved spacing and display of plugin information. The user also added plugin version information and updated the UI to include settings icons, enhancing the overall user experience. Furthermore, the user formatted and committed code changes.
kakounerustlightningdeveloper-toolseditor
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