# Hongwei Liu

> Software Engineer

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

Self-motivated software engineer, with experiences in various roles. From software and system architecture design, team management, to individual contributor on code implementation and testing. Mostly on back-end, but also with experience on web front-end.

Highlighted experiences:
­- OpenStack and Kubernetes based Cloud (public, private, and hybrid) IaaS system and application development, deployment and operation.
­- Distributed application and service SaaS development and deployment automation on Azure, AWS and GCE public cloud. 
­- Big data platform and application for large scale distributed system, with mainstream open source tools (Mongo, Cassandra, Lucene, Elastic search, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop)
- Machine learning applications and service based on Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ A Startup Company
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
­Design, build, deployment and operate enterprise hybrid cloud based on OpenStack and Kubernetes.
­Design, Implement complementary features based on OpenStack/Kubernetes for customers, examples like the High Availability of VMs/Services, etc.
­Design, implement and docker containerize notification system for operating managed OpenStack and Kubernetes cloud. 
­Improve existing cloud management system for deploying Kubernetes cluster remotely with Python, NodeJS, Unix Bash script, RabbitMQ, etc
­Build and maintain APIs, services and systems used by customers, examples like Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, etc.
­Improve and fix bugs for web UI implemented with AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS
Diagnose and debug issues on customer environments

### Software Development Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California, United States
­Participate in the architecture, design, implementation of complex solutions in cross-team development efforts.       
­Design and implement robust big data acquisition, persistence and analytic platform with Apache Kafka, Elastic search and Apache Spark
­Drive design, code reviews, and assist the team in setting engineering best practices direction.  
­Analyze, design, and implement robust, cloud based monitoring and alerting system with Elastic X-Pack through Watcher.    
Develop and implement tools and services address vital customer scenarios within the team with Spring MVC, AngularJs, EclipseLink JPA and MySql.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, California, United States
­Design and implement test infrastructure framework for Azure cloud based services with ASP.NET MVC.  
­Design and implement Azure diagnostic based monitoring system for cloud-based services with C#, Typescript, Knockout, JavaScript, Ajax, and JQuery.
Design and implement health model rule based real time alerting engine for services healthy monitoring with C#, Azure Storage.


## Education
### Master of Computer Science in Big Data Systems
Arizona State University


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/hongwei
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Last updated: 2026-03-22