# He "Lonnie" Liu

> Software Engineer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/helonnieliu

Software Engineer. Specialized on CI/CD, release management, security & privacy, networking, operating systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Anyscale
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Release and Engineering Efficiency (REEf) / Developer Productivity / Security

Orchestrate CI/CD pipelines, manage internal development infrastructure, release Ray library, deploy console.anyscale.com, monitor and reduce cloud compute costs, improve release and engineering efficiency.

Find me on GitHub @ https://github.com/aslonnie

### Founder @ Shanhu Tech Inc.
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
https://www.homedrive.io

Built HomeDrive: a small personal server box that is local, private and independent. It hosts Nextcloud and other Web apps at user's own places, features plug-and-play network tunnels, end-to-end HTTPS and automatic software updates.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Loon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Security and Privacy team lead. Oversaw the security and privacy posture of the company of 300+ employees. Managed a team of 3 people. Designed and implemented "secure-by-default" infrastructure to prevent incidents from happening. Established security and privacy risk models and performed risk assessments. Stood up security and privacy incident response programs. Provided security reviews and consulting to all company departments: software, hardware, balloon launch sites, hiring, legal, etc.

### Software Engineer @ Loon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Designed and built embedded Loon Linux verified boot (bootloader, kernel, initramfs, rootfs), verified updater, SSH and TLS certificate. Eliminated the use of user static SSH keys on production systems.

### Software Engineer @ Alphabet Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Refactored and maintained the SCTP stack and MME module for Evolved Packet Core. Implemented PCRF. Designed, built and maintained API endpoints to peer with ISP partners.

### Research Assistant @ University of California, San Diego
Jan 2009 – Jan 2015
Sysnet Group, CESR
Electrical-circuit hybrid datacenter switching.
DNS crawler; spam domain analysis.
Advisor: Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage

### Intern @ Microsoft Research, Redmond
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Trusted sensor readings.
Mentors: Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman

### Intern @ Microsoft Research Asia
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Sora baseband for 802.11a/b/g.
Mentor: Kun Tan


## Education
### Ph.D in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/h8liu
- Portfolio: http://liulonnie.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-11