Zizhen Liu
Software Engineer at Addepar
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZizhen Liu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building systems and production services, currently focused on backend engineering at Addepar in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a strong foundation from a BS in ECE and a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, he pairs low-level hardware and FPGA experience with modern cloud-native development. His background includes engineering roles at Goldman Sachs where he implemented containerized Linux desktop infrastructure with Kubernetes and Python, and academic projects that delivered real-time FPGA audio event detection and a custom multithreaded OS. Comfortable across C, SystemVerilog, Python, and full-stack tooling, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset to complex performance and reliability problems. A former James Scholar and competition winner, he combines research-driven curiosity with production-focused delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
vms8
libvirt7
api6
kubernetes4
virtualization4
python-bindings3
python2
thrift2
osquery1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Zizhen/18658-carbonfootprint
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:35 PRs, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
Zizhen/cuda_word2vec
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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