Zijie Liu
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZijie Liu is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with a decade of experience building large-scale, user-facing features at Google, primarily on Google Photos where he led cinematic memory and music-in-memories initiatives. He progressed from core feature implementation to senior and staff engineering roles, bringing strong product-systems instincts to imaging pipelines and multimedia experiences. Earlier work includes re-architecting Dropbox’s Lepton JPEG compressor in Rust to improve safety and storage efficiency, contributing to a measurable 1% reduction in Dropbox’s total storage. His research background in differentially private deep learning and practical robotics tooling shows a rare blend of systems engineering, ML privacy, and low-level performance optimization. Comfortable across C++, Rust, and ML stacks, he combines productionship with research-grade rigor to tackle privacy-sensitive, compute-heavy problems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistical Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistical Science at Duke University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
python10
data-science10
compression-algorithm10
machine-learning10
psd10
file-format10
ml10
lossless-compression-algorithm10
jpeg10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
photoshop10
neural-network10
compression10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liuzjmike/crypto
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
liuzjmike/ros_model_comparator
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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