Ziyu Liu
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyu Liu is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta with nine years of experience building youth- and family-focused platforms across Instagram, Growth, and centralized youth services. He progressed rapidly through engineering roles at Meta from intern to staff, contributing to AR/VR media services early on and later driving product and platform work for youth-centric initiatives. His background blends rigorous research—co-authoring a conference paper on detecting wireless spy cameras while at Peking University—with practical ML experience from a Microsoft Research internship. Based in Massachusetts, he holds a BS in Computer Science from Peking University and an MS from Brandeis, bringing both academic depth and large-scale production experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who navigates cross-functional complexity to deliver user-focused, privacy-conscious systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Technology at Peking UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Brandeis University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
r9
kaggle8
classification8
python8
lightgbm8
data-mining8
gradient8
parallel8
gradient-boosting7
machine-learning7
ranking7
decision-tree7
high-performance6
boosting6
microsoft6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lisyzone/NetworkLab
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
sinatra-in-the-shell/NanoTwitter
Feb 2019 - May 2019
course project for Cosi105
Contributions:128 commits, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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