# Allan Liu

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Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allanliu

Technical Stack:
Languages: Golang, C++, Python, Scala, Ruby, Lua, Jython, Bash 
OS: Linux, MacOS
Config Management: Salt-Stack, Chef 
DBMS: Postgres, MySQL, TSQL, Cassandra
Distributed Applications Orchestration Frameworks: Kubernetes, Mesos
Test Frameworks: Google Test Framework, Go Test, PyUnit, Rspec, Capybara, Chefspec 
Load Testing: Gatling, JMeter 
Proxy Servers and Load Balancers: NGinx, HAProxy, Apache Web Server 
Monitoring: Zabbix, OMD (Nagios & CheckMK), Prometheus
CI Servers:Concourse, Drone CI, Jenkins

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Block
Jan 2022 – Present | Oakland, California, United States
Data infrastructure
- Driving unification of platforms
- scale
- automate away operational bottlenecks
- reliability advocate
- improving engineering practice

### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Load testing frameworks , and scaling.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California

### Software Engineer @ DigitalOcean
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Languages Used: Go, C++, Python, Scala,  Ruby, Bash
• Development of company’s data center infrastructure management system from the ground up which involves building various UI’s, gRPC and web services, and backend system development (Go, C++)
• Data engineering of collected data utilizing big data technologies such as Apache Spark, HDFS, PrestoDB (Scala)
• Tracing, debugging, and profiling of systems and applications
• Open source project development (Go, C++)
• Reporting and scripting (Python)
• Work with cross functional teams across the company to ensure proposed solutions are consistent and concise with the company’s needs and standards

### Software Engineer @ Permission Data
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Languages Used: Python, Golang, Bash, Scala
• Developed datacenter provisioning automation (utilizing a hybrid Infrastructure as Code/Infrastructure as Data implementation) and deployment pipeline from scratch
• Management and develop Continuous Integration System pipeline using Drone CI and SaltStack
• Drive migration of entire infrastructure from physical datacenter to AWS
• Set-up, management, and development of Apache Mesos backed infrastructure for backend microservices
• Development of all operations related tooling
• Production firefighting and system debugging
• Load and performance testing using Gatling

### DevOps/ Software QA @ Bluebox Security (Acquired by Lookout)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Languages Used: Python, Bash
• Develop and maintain tooling for testing
• Develop and maintain infrastructure tooling modules in SaltStack
• Develop and maintain automation tests
• Responsible for the deployment and maintenance test environments running on AWS Linux instances which includes service and system debugging
• Develop and manage test cases for features of the product
• Play in integral role in implementing and streamlining QA Process

### QA Automation / Team Lead @ Kabam
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
Languages Used: Ruby, Lua, Jython, Bash
• Develop administrative web tool using Ruby on Rails
• Design and develop performance tests backend and mobile front end
• Setup and maintain test environments
• Frontend and backend testing at the unit, integration, and end-to-end levels
• Streamline development process by integrating QA process at multiple points of development timeline
• Maintain client and back-end build releases using git flow 
• Oversee the execution and development of test cases by QA team
• Create, implement and maintain test plans throughout the product life cycle
• Work with art, product, and development teams to ensure problems are identified early and the steps necessary for a quick turnaround on the resolution are executed in a timely manner

### Mobile Application Porting Engineer / Team Lead @ FunMobility
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
Languages Used: Python, SQL
• Scripting and automation
• Create SQL scripts and stored procedures.
• File, track, and isolate client and server bugs; then work with developers to resolve the issues
• Debug and fix Database Configuration bugs
• Manage and distribute team workload to ensure all projects are properly configured and/or ported, QA tested, and Submitted.
• Manage entire life-cycle of projects including initial device porting effort, backend server set-up, client packaging, and QA life-cycle.
• Re-skin existing applications into new brand new products by creating new UI resource files, repackaging client files, and set up application level server configurations.
• Test Plan and create Full Regression Test Suite which includes Application Functionality, Device Stability, and User Acceptance; ensure that developed test-cases comply with requirements set by the carriers and testing centers.
• Coordinate projects with development teams, other QA team members, and Technical Operations to develop the most pragmatic approach to deliver a high quality product by a given deadline.
• Work with Sales and Products Teams to meet carrier requirements.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Asian-American Studies
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allanliu

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Last updated: 2026-04-12