Wayne Liu

Wayne Liu

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ABOUT ME
Senior full stack engineer and tech lead. 10+ years of experience
Senior full stack engineer and tech lead. 10+ years of experience

Note: for the past 9 months, I've been heavily focused on AI Engineering, building features that use large language models (data entry automation, retrieval augmented generation chatbots)

I've been working as a software engineer for 10+ years that has been mainly focused on web application development and some systems development, in NYC and Boston. Have had full-time roles at 4 startups and 1 corporation. I come from a strong computer science background, having graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.

My experience lies both in computer science fundamentals and shipping projects end-to-end as a full stack generalist - frontend, backend, data, and SRE. Having worked at startups, I've learned to be versatile, doing some minor product and project management as well. In addition, I've launched 3 full stack side projects.

With 5 years of experience mentoring other engineers, I've conducted 50+ technical interviews and have been interviewed 20+ times.

I enjoy helping others - it's fulfilling to help others level up while also helping my own continuous learning!

Some potential areas I can help with:

  • brushing up on computer science fundamentals
  • preparing for software engineering interviews (data structures and algorithms coding problems, system design, behavioral)
  • pair programming on a project, recommending best practices for frontend, backend, data, and SRE
  • code review
  • debugging
  • testing
  • resume review
  • career strategy consultation
English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined February 2020
EXPERTISE
9 years experience
* As a tech lead, supporting and multiplying technical output of an engineering team * Shipping projects from design to delivery * Tackli...
* As a tech lead, supporting and multiplying technical output of an engineering team * Shipping projects from design to delivery * Tackling ambiguity with proofs of concepts * Design docs, technical plans * Code reviews * Testing * Productionizing services * Monitoring * Product management * Project management
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6 years experience | 4 endorsements

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(5 reviews)
Jermaine Forbes
Jermaine Forbes
August 2020
He gave me an overview of the possible steps I need to land a job. I think I have a better chance at achieving one
Elan Kvitko
Elan Kvitko
May 2020
Wayne was amazing and took his time explaining every solution to me. Mentored perfectly and I think I will be able to tackle my interview soon. One step closer at least!
John
John
March 2020
Very understanding and easy to work with!
Carlo Santos
Carlo Santos
March 2020
Wayne is awesome. Very knowledgeable and patient.
EMPLOYMENTS
Software Engineer, Tech Lead
VTS
2020-03-01-Present
Market platform
Market platform
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
React
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Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
React
Apache Kafka
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Software Engineer
Namely
2016-10-01-2019-03-01
* Lead engineer in designing and implementing a microservice decomposition project (Golang, Ruby, C#, Kafka, gRPC) to streamline the user...
* Lead engineer in designing and implementing a microservice decomposition project (Golang, Ruby, C#, Kafka, gRPC) to streamline the user experience of setting up new clients and adopt an event-driven architecture * Lead engineer in designing and implementing an internal tool (Golang) that listens for Spinnaker deployment events and outputs metadata with integrations with Google Sheets, GitHub, and JIRA for release activity monitoring * Designed and implemented a library to standardize logging and integrate APM tools across multiple services * Implemented a CMS to manage permissions for a new internal tools auth system * Implemented various features across Namely’s suite of internal tools * Hackathons * 2018 - 3rd place - Lead engineer - Sentiment analysis on performance reviews using machine learning * 2017 - Team lead - Similar task detection in JIRA using natural language processing
HTML/CSS
Python
Ruby on Rails
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HTML/CSS
Python
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
JavaScript
Apache Kafka
Kubernetes
Go
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Software Engineer
Handy
2016-01-01-2016-06-01
Worked on the core/infrastructure team on backend projects, including: * a new pricing service (Sinatra micro service, Rails monolith int...
Worked on the core/infrastructure team on backend projects, including: * a new pricing service (Sinatra micro service, Rails monolith integration) - from design to delivery * logging and subsequent retrying of failed fee charges * a payment feature allowing the customer experience team to pay providers in an ad hoc fashion
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Sinatra
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Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Sinatra
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