Ziheng Liao
Software Engineer at Databricks
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiheng Liao is a software engineer at Databricks with a decade of experience building cloud and distributed systems, grounded in an MCDS from CMU and a BEng in Computer Science from HKU. He has designed and shipped resource provisioning and cloud infrastructure tooling for Databricks on Azure, and previously optimized cluster computing and Spark/YARN stacks at Lenovo. His background spans backend systems, Python and Scala engineering, and practical ML model delivery from early internships to production services. He also taught a graduate-level storage systems course at CMU, reflecting a strong foundation in systems theory as well as hands-on implementation. Based in California, Ziheng combines research-oriented rigor with production-focused pragmatism, often translating academic concepts into scalable cloud services. An early contributor to Databricks intern projects, he brings continuity across prototype and production lifecycles.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (62)
graph10
terraform10
rdbms10
database-management10
database10
super-resolution9
hashicorp9
aws9
terraform-module9
noise-reduction9
infrastructure9
image-enlarger8
terragrunt8
dbms8
vault8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alphalzh/EasyMPI
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alphalzh/peloton
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
management-systemdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabasedatabase-management
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