Zhiyou Liu
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiyou Liu is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and modernizing high-performance, reliable system software at Microsoft. He specializes in database internals and distributed systems, having modernized SQL Server’s TCP/IP message framework to improve CPU usage and latency for a new distributed architecture. Zhiyou has a track record of practical problem solving—replacing a home-grown encryption scheme with TLS to cut CPU by 60% and creating watchdog and repair mechanisms that kept SaaS VMs and data pages operational under real-world failures. He combines rigorous instrumentation and profiling with exploration of new technologies to future-proof platforms. A Peking University MS graduate, he brings deep systems expertise grounded in production impact and pragmatic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Peking University
Github Skills (40)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
security10
nodejs10
reverse-engineering10
rocket9
editor9
unix9
text-editor9
electron9
static-analysis9
libc9
radare29
http-request9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EasyHard/dpv
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year
EasyHard/EasyHard.github.io
May 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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