Summary
Ling Liu is an engineering director and senior staff engineer with 15+ years building large-scale data and system infrastructure across search, social, fintech, logistics, and mapping. He has led teams from core crawler/indexer work at Yahoo to creating a graph database at LinkedIn and co-leading Uber’s AthenaX Flink-based streaming platform, consistently turning research-grade technologies into production-grade systems. At Alibaba/AutoNavi he directs 100+ engineers on an AI-centric, full-stack HD map platform that fuses deep learning, GIS, edge intelligence, and CI/CD to produce self-driving-grade map data. Known for bridging open-source communities and enterprise delivery, he combines representation-learning expertise with practical system design to accelerate real-time analytics and risk-control solutions. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings both hands-on algorithmic depth and large-scale operational leadership that few engineers sustain across such diverse domains.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese