# Mingliang Liu

> Staff Software Engineer at Netflix

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

## Work Experience
### Apache Ratis Committer and PMC @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Apache Hadoop Committer and PMC @ The Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Real-time stream processing.

### Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
I work on distributed storage systems at Salesforce's scale in the public cloud:
• Lead a team by driving the Apache Phoenix high availability (HA) feature
• Develop cloud-native storage system: Ceph/HBase running in Kubernetes
• Build multi-tenant data lakes to support organization isolation, data ingestion and migration
• Serve as the scrum master (certified) of 10+ team members

### Member of Technical Staff @ Hortonworks
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
I work on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) which provides high throughput access to big data:
  • Design and implementation of new features (e.g. caller context, S3Guard)
  • Bug fixes (a bug fix made Mover tool 10X faster) and performance enhancements
  • Modernization and test improvement (e.g. split hdfs-client module for light dependency)
  • Engineering support (we have 1K+ enterprise customers!)

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked on DynamoDB, a fast and flexible NoSQL database Amazon Web Service:
• Implement several new JSON expression features (e.g. size and type)
• Migrate the key condition expression and index scan to DynamoDB Local


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science
Tsinghua University

### Bachelor of Science
China Three Gorges University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/liuml07
- Portfolio: http://people.apache.org/~liuml07

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Last updated: 2026-04-12