Yuyang Liu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolYuyang Liu is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with nine years of software engineering experience and a 3.98 GPA MS/BS in Computer Science from UIUC. He brings full‑stack fluency from frontend React work on research projects and a student-facing startup to production services at AWS, combining UI sensibility with backend rigor. At UIUC he supported computer-architecture and intro CS courses while contributing to plagiarism detection and data-visualization research, reflecting a blend of teaching, research, and engineering. Past internships at Citadel and PreVeil and a startup co‑founder role demonstrate comfort across high‑performance, secure, and user‑centric domains. Based in Austin, he pairs deep academic grounding with proven delivery in large-scale cloud environments. A quietly entrepreneurial engineer, he often bridges research prototypes to production-quality features.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
4 Distinctions,1 Merit in Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level Examination, 4 Distinctions,1 Merit in Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level Examination at Victoria Junior CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
json-editor10
javascript9
ios9
ionic9
vue9
react9
angular9
frontend9
capacitor8
viewer8
mobile-web8
material-design8
android8
typescript8
css8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leon9608/GrabTheFood
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
leon9608/CS498RK-Final_Project
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 PRs, 20 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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