# Vincent Liaw > Databricks. Previously LinkedIn, Team SoloMid. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vincentliaw work hard for future shibe ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Lakeflow Connect ### Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 • Work across the stack to prototype, build, and productionize experiences for ingestion. File uploads, ingestion from cloud stores, and many more data sources to come :). • Prototype (including in figma) where needed and solicit feedback from stakeholders to unblock key design decisions ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Further recommendations work and new recommendations • Platformizing campaign recommendations to reduce turnaround time for new recs. ### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed and created a recommendations platform leveraging forecasting data to provide recommendations on campaign creation. • Led a team of 3 to integrate existing campaign data with online-only forecasting service + notifications. • Implemented various feature improvements to forecasting service, such as implementing forecasts for newly introduced campaign types. • Mostly backend work, some light Ember/UI and offline work. ### UI Engineer Intern @ LinkedIn Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, CA • Worked on Campaign Manager, LinkedIn's ads platform • Added new displayed information on campaign insights and tracking functionality to improve ad usage and reduce churn. • Added report ads functionality to text ads on flagship linkedin.com frontend • Used Scala (Java Play), ES6 Backbone and Ember. • Prototyped early stage canvas ads and split testing user flows & features using Sketch + Invision ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of California San Diego Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla, CA • Supervisor: Nadir Weibel • Built configurable dashboard for HIV/AIDS researchers to visualize clinical patient data • Developed interconnected maps, barcharts and line graphs and ability to inspect and compare individual data clusters to find trends, distribution and relationships • Used ES6 React/Redux, D3JS, and LeafletJS. See avantgarde.ucsd.edu ### Web Developer @ TSM Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Rebuilt http://tsm.gg frontend • Designed and implemented a style guide for TSM news articles • Built async, self-caching League of Legends data tooltip API used on multiple SoloMid sites including probuilds.net and champion.gg • Optimized overwatchelite.net to work seamlessly for both desktop and mobile • Extensive use of ES6 Javascript, React, Redux, and Express ### Undergraduate Tutor @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla, CA • Winter 2017: COGS120/CSE170 - Human-Computer Interaction taught by Prof. Scott Klemmer • Lead studio section on Learning, held office hours, and taught design principles and web development (including one lecture) • Updated labs teaching UI design and development. http://ixd.ucsd.edu/home/w17/index.php ### Instructional Apprentice @ University of California, San Diego Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Diego • Fall 2016: COGS 187A - Cognitive Aspects of Digital Design under Prof. David Kirsch • Teaching introductory web development (HTML,CSS) and user experience and interface design principles; held office hours and workshops. • Wrote autograder script to reduce coding project grade time. ### Volunteer @ Global Energy Network Institute - GENI Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Diego, CA Responsibilities include front-end design & development (HTML, CSS) and content management with Drupal. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cognitive Science UC San Diego ### Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### High School Washington High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincentliaw - Website: http://vincentcliaw.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/vincentliaw JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vincentliaw/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05