# Zhuolin Liu

> Software Engineer at Google

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Tech Lead at Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Tintri
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
Building a VM-aware Clustering System to aggregate data from Storage Appliances and manage VM’s protection, relocate policies to make sure efficiency and reliability of IO/Space/Flash.
Transparent Failover: Implemented Synchronous Replication Service Group to realize zero RPO for VMs.
VM Scale-out: Built a service to use predictive algorithms (Monte Carlo, Linear regression, KMeans, LogNormal) to find out space/IOLoad/flash imbalanced appliances, then select and relocate VMs to reach overall Load Balance.
200k VM support: Split Aggregator into small aggregators to reduce lock held time and increase throughput of the message queue. Tuned and refactored thread pool to reduce threads coordination time.
Policy Stickiness: Designed a State Machine to carry over VM protection policies after VM migration.
REST API: Responsible for products’ REST API review, maintenance and version compatibility.
Two-time Tintri Hackathon Winner!

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
08-722 Data Structures for Application Programmers

### Software Engineer Intern @ Tintri
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, California
Built a simulated appliance to hijack real-time API requests and return mapped historical phone home data.

### Research Assistant @ Tsinghua University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Designed a multipath routing algorithm based on queue management, Dijkstra and BFS 
Performed topology simulation and routing layer network traffic by NS2 
Over 50% improvement on link delay, congestion queue length and throughput


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Information Networking
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics
Peking University

### Bachelor in Communication Engineering
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhuolin-liu-0a42a758

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Last updated: 2026-04-12