# Thomas Liu

> Software Engineer

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasliu1

Full-stack engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ MBTA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ mnectar
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Designed, built, deployed, and maintained a distributed app streaming platform built on top of Android and HardKernel’s ODROID devices. The platform is used to serve over a hundred thousand playable ads a day that allow users to sample mobile games before downloading.

### CTO, Lead Developer @ BrakeHand, LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Sole developer for a start-up to create a web app that used a catalog of routes set in the gym to create a social network for rock climbers to connect with each other, keep track of climbing progress, and provide feedback to the gyms.

### Software Engineer @ HubSpot
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Full-stack developer for the Email team. Worked on functionality of an email API that sends millions of emails every day through SendGrid. Worked on an internal brunch app used by support to assist customers. Collected and dealt with big data using Hadoop and stored in HBase.

### Software Engineer @ Kayak.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Worked on two different teams at KAYAK working on different portions of the KAYAK website, including working in Javascript, Java, Spring and MySQL

* Hotel Data: I worked on this team on pipeline tools for importing and cleaning hotel data received from providers.  

* Mobile Team: Worked on the web version of the itinerary management tool MyTrips.  This included working with the back end and front end to implement new features and fix existing issues with the product.

### Senior Assistant @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Worcester, MA
Duties included office hours, grading and assisting with classes

Courses:
* Introduction to Program Design
* Object Oriented Design Concepts
* Operating Systems
* Software Engineering
* Software Security

### Software Engineering Intern @ Red Hat
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Westford, MA
Developed Components relating to Security Enhanced Linux

Notable Projects:
* setroubleshoot - redesigned and reimplemented the graphical user interface for this SELinux troubleshooting tool
* policycoreutils - wrote a python wrapper around tools used for searching of policy, added functionality to command line utilities setfiles and restorecond
* kernel - contributed patches to the security-testing branch of the kernel, gained experience communicating with kernel developers
* PackageKit - Fixed and updated python frontend to work with new libraries
* sandbox - integrated cgroups into sandbox to confine applications

### Helpdesk Student Specialist @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Worcester, MA
Solved technology issues for faculty and students over the telephone, in person 
and through email.

### Research Assistant @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Worcester, MA
Collected data to further research addressing WPI Assistments, software 
designed to help Worcester secondary school students achieve better scores on
standardized tests.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science and Interactive Media and Game Development
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomas-liu-78b26543

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Last updated: 2026-03-31