Zehua Liu is a seasoned engineering leader and investor based in Greater Sydney with over 20 years of hands-on software engineering experience and 10+ years leading and scaling teams across startups and larger product organisations. He has repeatedly moved between deep technical roles and strategic leadership—shaping backend-first architectures, leading server and API platforms, and coaching teams at companies like Canva, Zendesk and Atlassian. Comfortable across desktop, AJAX web apps and no-UI API servers, Zehua has guided ventures through seed to post-IPO stages and now advises founders at Startmate while serving as CTO of Veridooh. His background includes academic teaching and a PhD in Computer Science, which complements a pragmatic product mindset and a knack for translating research-grade ideas into production systems. A subtle strength is his blend of startup grit and institutional delivery experience, enabling him to balance rapid innovation with engineering discipline.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Tsinghua University
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Contributions:8 PRs, 61 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 4 months
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