Hongbo Liu
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolHongbo Liu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and big data platforms, currently at AWS after a multi-year tenure architecting analytics and in-memory engines at MicroStrategy. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Scala and C++ with practical experience in Apache Spark, OLAP databases and machine learning infrastructure from roles at LinkedIn and MicroStrategy. Hongbo has led backend architecture, mentored teams, and optimized query execution, memory governance and parallel processing for real-time analytical workloads. He is also an active open-source contributor who has improved terminal and HTTP handling in widely used projects like vim-neoterm, vim-go and the Apache brpc RPC framework, demonstrating attention to reliability and developer experience. Based in Herndon, VA, he pairs rapid learning and consistent high performance with a pragmatic focus on testing and clear error diagnostics.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Peking UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityHarbin No.3 High School
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (29)
c-language10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
http10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
vim10
rpc10
go10
repr10
replit10
golang10
cprogramming-language10
emulation10
viml9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kassio/neoterm
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Wrapper of some vim/neovim's :terminal functions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hongbo primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the `neoterm` plugin for Vim/Neovim. Their work includes addressing issues related to window size management, navigating terminal buffers, and adding support for the REPL functionality, specifically for shell command handling and custom callbacks. The user's contributions focused on improving the functionality and usability of the terminal emulator within the editor environment. Their changes involved modification of the neoterm.vim and neoterm/repl.vim files.
neovimvimreplterminal
apache/brpc
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
brpc is an Industrial-grade RPC framework using C++ Language, which is often used in high performance system such as Search, Storage, Machine learning, Advertisement, Recommendation etc. "brpc" means "better RPC".
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hongbo primarily contributed to the `brpc` framework, focusing on HTTP-related functionality. They implemented support for parsing and serializing proto-text format in HTTP requests and responses, adding new content type handling within the system. Additionally, the user added unit tests to validate the newly added functionality, demonstrating a focus on code quality and testing. They also made minor improvements to the clarity of error messages.
cppmachine-learningrpc
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