Zijie Lu
Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZijie Lu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems and distributed services, currently working at Google out of Kirkland, WA. He has deep experience at AWS on DynamoDB teams (including global strong-consistency and backup systems) and has contributed production-grade networking code to the well-known open-source project Tailscale, improving DERP latency handling and HTTPS fallbacks in Go. His background spans blockchain consensus research, Bitcoin/Lightning engineering, and full‑stack work at startups, giving him a strong foundation across networking, databases, and cryptoeconomics. Known for pragmatic refactors and robustness improvements, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation to ship resilient infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science C&O Mathematics, Computer Science C&O Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
go10
vpn10
networking10
tailscale10
wireguard10
json9
ssl6
2factor4
github4
ss3
oauth3
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
May 2020 - Aug 2020
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Zijie primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Tailscale project. Their work focused on improving DERP latency checks, implementing HTTPS fallback mechanisms for DERP latency, and refactoring the JSONHandler. These changes involved the use of Go programming language and interaction with network-related components within the codebase. The user also added support for the status output for the local machine, and for the --force-reauth flag.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
lzjluzijie/beichao
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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