# Alexander Liu

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexanderliu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Arena
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ PDT Partners
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
Double Click for Publishers.

### Software Development Engineer in Bing @ Microsoft
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bellevue, WA
• Implemented customized Relevance solutions for Bing media search on Xbox. Worked extensively on improving ranking results through experimentation with query analysis, data improvements, feature implementation.
• Experiences with managing and mitigating Live-Site issues. Extensive knowledge of the Bing search stack.
• Worked on both UX and the backend for the Bing Entertainment domain-specialized search. Implemented end to end features including data ingestion, aggregation, and user experience from different data providers.

### SQA Engineer Intern @ Symantec
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Culver City, CA
• Worked on the Norton Reputation/Cloud-based anti-virus protection service
• Researched and created data-mining/analysis tools for the Reputation protection service. Placed 2nd in the Annual Intern Project Showcase with the research results.
• Conducting component testing/code reviews for the machine learning component used in the Reputation service

### Research Intern @ University of Illinois at Chicago, National Center for Data Mining
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Chicago, Illinois
• Analyzed the cloud computing software frameworks of the open-source software Hadoop and Sector, a software framework developed at UIC 
• Developed programs that utilize the Map/Reduce programming paradigm in both Sector and Hadoop. Compared performance, robustness, and scalability of the two software frameworks

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
• Developed automation scripts for daily test automation reports and alerts.
• Built and maintained portal for team with project info, documentation, tools, and resources.

### Research Assistant @ UCLA, Network Research Lab
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
•  Gathered and analyze network measurements of various congestion control algorithms.
•  Modified, debugged, and assisted in coding the congestion control algorithm as a part of the Linux kernel 
•  Participated in peer review of the research paper before publication


## Education
### Mission San Jose High School

### MS in Computer Science
UCLA

### BS in Computer Science
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexander-liu-8778a812

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Last updated: 2026-04-05