# Liyu Liu

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Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/liyu

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tencent Americas
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
-Frontend Integrated Platform Development: Engaged in the end-to-end development of an integrated tool platform for Cloud Studio,collaborating with the PM to outline application scenarios, studio onboarding/offboarding processes, and user flows. Independently executedfrontend development, implementing platform microservices with "Next.js, React.js, and Material UI" based on Figma model.
-Backend Microservices Development: Designed and implemented backend APIs with Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, focusing on secure, efficientdata handling and improved response times.
-Commercial Website Development: Developed a commercial website for the Game Developers Conference (www.cloudstudio.games),collaborating with the project team to deliver within two months. Managed backend monitoring, regular content updates, and user feedbackcollection to continuously optimize the site.
-Data Security: Enhanced user data privacy using JWT and HTTP-only cookies, implementing a dual-protection system (password + verificationcode) that reduced data leak incidents by over 200 cases.
-Performance Optimization: Improved page load performance with Next.js server-side rendering, analyzing content type and load algorithms toachieve a 30% reduction in page load time.

### Software Developer @ University of Chicago City Scholar
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
-	Developed track spending feature using Python Django for backend services, HTML and CSS with AngularJS for frontend framework, providing users a dynamic platform to efficiently plan their daily schedules and monitor expenses.
-	Implemented a CI/CD pipeline by leveraging Jenkins automation to build, test, and deploy software products to orchestrate the entire software development lifecycle, resulting in accelerated release cycles.
-	Orchestrated the robust backend of the "Ludite" application using Node.js, focusing on efficient server-side functionalities.

### Software Developer @ Inspur Worldwide Services LTD
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Jinan, Shandong, China
-Big Data Frontend Development: Led frontend development for a hospital data project, using React to visualize complex data for patientinformation in collaboration with the product manager.
-Tool Development: Assisted in creating presentation materials on large model applications to support project explanations and client interactions.
-Backend Data Maintenance: Maintained hospital data using Python and SQL, performing data classification, cleaning, and deduplication toimprove visualization accuracy and insights.
-Version Control: Managed code changes with Git and established a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins for seamless integration and automateddeployment.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Data Science
Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Statistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liyu-liu-23153a27b

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Last updated: 2026-04-11