Gaojie Liu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaojie Liu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale with 9 years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems. He advanced through successive engineering roles at LinkedIn after senior positions at Yahoo! and Baidu, focusing on reliability, observability, and storage infrastructure. An active contributor to open-source storage work, his contributions to the Voldemort Dynamo clone improved the Hadoop store builder, added HDFS push metrics, hardened admin services, and resolved connection leaks. Known for pragmatic fixes that boost operational visibility and compilation robustness, he blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership and team mentorship. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science/Software Engineering from Wuhan University.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Wuhan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
javas10
voldemort10
hadoop10
java10
hdfs9
data-storage9
build-automation8
multithreading8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 15 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gaojie primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Voldemort project, focusing on improving the Hadoop store builder and the Admin Service. Their work included enhancing the logging messages, implementing new metrics for HDFS data pushes, and optimizing the store/schema verification process. Additionally, the user addressed connection leaking issues and fixed compilation errors within the project.
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
gaojieliu/tehuti
Nov 2019 - Mar 2024
A simple metrics library.
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
metricscountermetrics-library
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