Leo Liu

About Leo Liu

Senior Software Development Engineer with 5 years of SWE experience at AWS and 4 years of product/project leadership in tech. Proven record of designing and leading high-impact systems at scale, improving reliability, automation, and operational efficiency. Holds an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA.

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Engineer

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Jun 2025 — Present · East Palo Alto, CA, US

   Tech lead and owner of Redshift’s internal core database, designing a fully automated CI/CD infrastructure for instance management, updates, and disaster recovery- Led the design and rollout of a distributed database proxy layer to manage connections and retries for downstream microservices, improving system resilience under thousands of concurrent connections- Tech lead of Redshift internal API layer, serving as a central hub connecting major microservices with distributed architecture and auto-scale-out logic- Mentored engineers, coordinated rollout across multiple teams, and implemented operational improvements.

Education

• National Taiwan Ocean University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2009 — 2012

• University of California, Davis

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

• Soochow University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Life Cycle Planning
• Javascript
• Business Strategy
• Windows
• Project Management
• Marketing
• Team Management
• C
• Programming
• Product Management
• Product Design
• Product Development
• Microsoft Office
• Linux
• Marketing Research
• Java
• Html
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Negotiation
• Market Analysis
• C++
• Business Analysis
• Predictive Modeling
• Statistics
• Css