# Xinzhou Liu

> Software | Life Sciences | AI | Gaming | Boglehead

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xinzhouliu

Cross-disciplinary industry experience and skillsets to transform life science using software and data.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ 10x Genomics
Jan 2025 – Present
R&D Infrastructure-as-Code. Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineering. SecDevOps.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Atomwise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built the core platform for developing complex but robust machine learning workflows.
- Designed, prioritized and implemented product visions and user requirements in a cross-functional team.
- Simplified software and data ecosystems to save 50% cost on compute and storage resources.
- Optimized CICD pipeline to boost developer productivity by 30%.
- Standardized documentation across internal tools to promote knowledge sharing.

### Software Engineer @ Atomwise
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Scaled and optimized vHTS machine learning platforms.
- Collaborated with scientists to build/improve analog search tools for better/faster virtual drug discovery.
- Improved engineering productivity by optimizing internal CICD pipelines.

### Software Engineer @ Zymergen
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Scaled up data warehouse ETL pipeline to increase throughput for product analysis.
- Achieved a 10x speedup in database query performance through query optimizations.
- Extended backend API capabilities to allow more complex queries, enhancing analytical flexibility.

### Software  Developer - Infrastructure @ State Farm ®
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Highlights:
- Develop and support a telephony self service application used by 18,000+ agent offices
- Modernize B2E applications into microservices and orchestrate them using docker swarm.
- Develop and support RESTful and SOAP APIs.
- Develop solutions for telephony infrastructure.
- Analyze and resolve infrastructure issues to ensure the application performance.
- Experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and CI/CD process
- Experience in full stack web development, and distributed systems.
- Experience in agile team work and mentorship.
Leveraged skills: 
Node.js, ReactJS, RESTful APIs, Perl, Bash, SQL Server, Oracle DB, Docker, Postman.

### Software Developer @ State Farm ®
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area
Responsible for migrating monolithic applications into containerized microservices on IaaS.
Utilized skills: NodeJS, Perl, SQL, Docker.

### Research Assistant @ University of Missouri-Columbia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Columbia, Missouri Area
Highlights:
1. Built a data collection and processing pipeline of biological sequencing data of different types and organisms from online public resources into a central MySQL database.
2. Implemented a job scheduler to run the pipeline upon user request.
3. Created a user interface for dozens of research groups and hundreds of users to request data.
4. Migrated the central database into a containerized microservice.

Leveraged Skills: Python, R, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML.

### Software Developer @ State Farm ®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area
Highlights:
1. Analyzed the software dependencies and complications of containerizing legacy web applications.
2. Built, tested, deployed and maintained Docker containers for implementing Microservice Architecture from Monolithic Architecture.
3. Orchestrated containerized microservices using Docker Swarm.
4. Developed and maintained automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines in both development and production environments.
5. Simplified container debugging and log analysis by creating a centralized logging solution  using ELK. 
6. Analyzed and fixed software vulnerabilities by performing Checkmarx code scan.

Leveraged Skills:
Perl, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, Git, CI/CD pipeline, debugging and security analysis.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Missouri-Columbia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Columbia, Missouri Area
Highlights:
1. Worked with students and professors in Data Science & Analytics Program to troubleshoot technical problems.
2. Performed quality assurance for the course development and graded coding assignments. 
3. Improved students’ hands-on knowledge on Data Mining, Data Visualization, Applied Machine Learning, etc.

Leveraged Skills: 
Python with pandas/sklearn/tensorflow, R with ggplot, PostgreSQL, Jupyter Notebook.

### Web Developer @ Vanguard Consulting
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Columbia, Missouri Area
1. Created CRUD functions using front-end APIs to populate/modify the chatbox database.
2. Fixed bugs in the legacy backend code to ensure APIs function properly.
3. Leveraged Skills: ELM, GraphQL.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Missouri-Columbia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Columbia, Missouri Area
1. Investigated the correlation between gene and protein expression patterns in water-stressed condition in maize. 
2. Performed data collection, analysis and visualization using Excel.
3. Research methods included comparison between transcriptomics (RNA-seq) and proteomics data, and qRT-PCR confirmation of RNA-seq data.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Missouri-Columbia

### Master's degree in Biochemistry
University of Missouri-Columbia

### Exchange Student in Biology
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biotechnology
Beijing Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xinzhou-liu
- GitHub: https://github.com/jimxliu
- Portfolio: https://newarkcaptain.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11