# Peiyu Liao > Software Engineer at Netflix Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/peiyu Well-rounded software engineer with around 3 years of experience in product development and product platform. Delivers work with speed and quality. Somehow survived multiple rounds of layoffs at Twitter. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2024 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States Evidence Engineering. ### Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Provisioning Infrastructure Team. •Major contributor to our interna lInfrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling utilized by over 30 teams at Databricks to streamline cloud resource management processes. •Led the overhaul of more than 3000 IaC configurations to establish dependency tracking, placement definition, and status output management. This initiative is a major prerequisite for artifact versioning and continuous deployment of the cloud resource drifts, resulting in reduced artifact sizes, improved build times, and increased platform stability. •Facilitated the expansion of our product into the AWS GovCloud region, ensuring full compliance with government regulations and standards.This enables the US government to confidently utilize our product for critical data processing and analysis tasks. • Contributed to the global expansion of Databricks products by orchestrating the provisioning of essential resources, such as cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and Databricks workspaces, to establish control planes in new regions. This initiative enhanced product availability and facilitated access to new customer bases across diverse geographical locations. ### Software Engineer II @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer I @ Twitter Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Customer Journey Onboarding team. •Led the design, execution, and analysis of A/B experiments aimed at improving the signup and onboarding experience. • Managed and maintained high‐traffic backend services that handles over 150k queries per second, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. •Pioneered the development and deployment of a production Python service for serving a browsable user recommendation experience during the onboarding process, achieving successful implementation within a single quarter. Collaborated with ML researcher, designer, product manager, and client engineers cross-functionally to deliver the experience. • Go‐to person for Twitter’s Signup flow experience and the product platform. • Driven over 12M user follows, 800K engagements, and 21.1M user active minutes in total on the platform. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington, USA Built a pluggable crypto library for OpenEnclave based on OpenSSL, which provides enhanced security and extensibility for OpenEnclave. Project involved CMake and low-level C code. Integrated Intel VTune Amplifier into OpenEnclave, allowing software and hardware profiling in an enclave application. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford Law School Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Stanford, CA, USA Assisted with the full-stack development of the Wise Messenger website using React, Redux, and MongoDB. Worked on a research project detecting bot comments from legal websites using representation learning and pattern recognition. ### Summer Research Intern @ Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Taipei City, Taiwan Designed and implemented a GAN model for paraphrase generation in PyTorch and demonstrated its ability to capture some core paraphrasing techniques through experiments. Awarded the Best Intern Project and Best Paper Presentation. ### Software Engineering Intern @ HDE, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tokyo, Japan Built an internal tool in React.js for data visualization and searching of customer data. Received training on server-side & DevOps configuration and programming. ### Research Assistant @ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hong Kong Built an iOS app in React Native to display air pollution data in Hong Kong and to provide traffic route advice based on personal health information. Project received funding of HKD 50 Million over five years. ### Technical Intern @ Yahoo Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Taipei City, Taiwan Built a live streaming app using React Native and Redux in a team of 2 engineers and 1 designer. Implemented the OAuth 2 procedure, built the WebRTC framework and UI, designed and created the database on Firebase with another intern. ### Lab Assistant @ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hong Kong Troubleshooting and queries answering in the lab of course Introduction to EEE. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Stanford University ### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Engineering The University of Hong Kong ### Exchange in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto ### Taipei First Girls Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peiyu-liao - Website: https://github.com/pyliaorachel --- Source: https://flows.cv/peiyu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/peiyu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05