# Mingjia L.

> Software Engineer at Google Big Query

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

My philosophy of being a leader usually includes three parts: 1. see people of the same passion and gather them together; 2. know what my team needs and provide  3. be visionary

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Present
Query and Storage team, focus on store and compute data generated in autonomous vehicle

I play with spanner , F1, Napa and capacitor . With my expertise in database internal, I sometimes invent new things to necessarily by pass those products’ limitation

### Uphonest VC Scout @ UpHonest Capital
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Cofounder of non profit culture events @ Zgzg
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
I set up vision, recruit people, lead 6 teams of 300+ volunteers (most of them are Bay Area engineers). 

I also worried about fund raising, PR, competitors. I learned to keep my team motivated and mobilized while no one is being paid a penny.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
I worked on Big Query Storage (GCP version of Databrick)

Improved BigQuery storage-powered  Spark’s performance in TPC-DS to beat parquet(GCS) powered Spark

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Azure Synapse(Azure version of Snowflake)
I worked on query engine team and directly report to query optimizer expert César A. Galindo-Legaria.
I supported JSON data type in Azure synapse (announced in MS Build 2018) and multi-column distribution table(announced in MS Build 2019)


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mingjia-liu-44981710a

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Last updated: 2026-03-29