George Liu
San Carlos,CA
Summary
- Engineering Leader with 14 years of experience in demanding environments focused on producing cutting-edge systems for information technology.
- Proven track record in spearheading Social Networking product development
- Extensive hands-on experience on building and scaling Mobile applications
- Seasoned in crafting and deploying advanced E-Commerce applications and solutions
- Specialized in driving product and user Growth while maintaining high retention
- Skilled in creating state-of-the-art Fintech solutions and Payments systems
- Well-organized and customer-focused with proven skills in project/process management and team leadership.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager II
Pinterest
09.2021 - Current
- Support 15+ full-stack Engineers and Engineering Manager to build Social Products including Comments, Reactions, Mentions as well as other engagement channels to optimize user engagement/retention at Pinterest
- 5Xed Comments and Reactions and 2Xed Social engaged sessions and WAU in 2 years
- Doubled team size in 1 year and expanded scope to encompass Following and Profile
- Led initiatives to build Creator-Centered Community on Pinterest
- DRI for surge investment to create sustainable growth trajectory for company
- Revamped calibration and performance evaluation system across entire Creator Org
Tech Lead Manager, Staff Software Engineer
Facebook
01.2016 - 09.2021
- Built and support a team of 8 engineers at WhatsApp to build highly reliable and scalable iOS infrastructure serving more than 330 million users
- Partner with development team on product development, application support plans, prototype programs and building roadmaps for teams
- Lead Better Engineering efforts across WhatsApp Consumer Org in all aspects of re-platformization, code modernization, performance, app size and documentation, etc
- Introduced cutting edge technologies such as ComponentKit and GraphQL to WhatsApp team which increased the productivity of engineers by 30%
- Internship Director at Facebook helped coaching, developing and supporting internship managers
- Founding member of Marketplace Seller team and led a team of 6 engineers to build the product from 0 to 1 in less than 6 months and gained 5 million DAUs and 1000 power sellers in the first month of launch
- Founding member of Facebook Groups Team, helped jump start the initiative and drove MAUs to 1 Billion by creating a variety of products include Groups Connect, Discovery, Creation, Local Vertical, etc
- Worked with customers for needs analysis, proposal development and engineering costs to produce roadmaps and estimates for Groups Team
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
12.2011 - 01.2016
- Worked on PayPal's Core Payments Infra team to build next-gen Payments infra serving and orchestrating 200+ internal services across company with goal of handling rapid business growth
- Led design and implementation of Payments SOR services capable of handling 20 Million transactions per day with five nines availability
- Built Payments migration pipeline aims at facilitating dynamic migration of 0.79 billion of PayPal transaction records while running legacy and new systems in parallel and offering backward compatibility to clients
- Built infra for ease of integration with Venmo when company was acquired
- Rebuilt PayPal's logging and unit testing framework to reduce debugging time and increase code coverage to over 90 percent for core modules
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
New York University
New York, NY05.2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Northeastern University
Shenyang, China05.2009
Skills
- Project/Process Management
- Team Building/Leading
- Mobile Development
- Social Networking
- Product Growth
- Fintech / Payments
- E-Commerce
- Search
Timeline
Engineering Manager II
Pinterest
09.2021 - Current
Tech Lead Manager, Staff Software Engineer
Facebook
01.2016 - 09.2021
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
12.2011 - 01.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
New York University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Northeastern University
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