Weipeng Liu

About Weipeng Liu

Weipeng is currently a Principal Software Engineer on the Bing Platform team, where we work on the index serving stack. This involves developing systems for caption generation and serving, reranking infrastructure, deep learning platform, and QnA, with a focus on building highly scalable, high-performance backend services.In the past (20••••13) he was a Research SDE in the Innovation Engineering Group at Microsoft Research Asia and worked to enhance Microsoft products with technology from research. He helped ship \"Code Clone Analysis\" in Visual Studio, and co-led the project “Engkoo Pinyin IME” (A Chinese Input Editor) which later became the popular Bing IME.Weipeng is a seasoned engineer, with 15+ years of C++ system level engineering, and 10+ years of backend service engineering experience. He is also the translator of \"Imperfect C++\",\"Exceptional C++ Style\",\"Working Effectively with Legacy Code\" and (co-translator)\"Beautiful Code\".In his leisure time, he also writes an occasional blog (http://mindhacks.cn) on programming, effective learning, psychology, etc. for over a decade; A selected collection of his blog articles has been published (2011) as a well-received book named \"Dark Time\"(as in the dark matter).

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Sep 2019 — Present · Redmond, US

Education

• Nanjing University

  Master's degree

  2006 — 2009

• Nanjing University

  Bachelor's degree

  2003 — 2005

• Nanjing University

  Mathematics

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• C#
• Algorithms
• Data Mining
• C++
• Computer Science
• C
• Win32 Api
• Artificial Intelligence
• Client Development
• Desktop Application Development
• Machine Learning
• Concurrent Programming
• Service Engineering
• Distributed Systems