Siqi Liu

About Siqi Liu

I’m a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building both cloud-native platforms and large-scale backend systems that power real products.I’ve worked across the stack—from product-facing backend services and high-traffic APIs to Kubernetes-based infrastructure, internal developer platforms, and automation tooling. My strength is bridging infrastructure and application development: designing systems that are not only scalable and reliable, but also enable teams to ship features faster and with higher confidence.Technically, I specialize in Go and distributed systems, with hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and data-processing workflows, as well as Kubernetes operators, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. I’m known for modernizing legacy systems, improving system reliability, and dramatically increasing developer productivity through thoughtful architecture, automation, and tooling.I enjoy working close to real problems—whether that’s supporting product teams with robust backend systems, or building platform capabilities that remove friction and let engineers focus on delivering customer value.Areas of focus include- Backend & Product Engineering (Go, microservices, APIs, distributed systems)- Platform Engineering & Cloud-Native Infrastructure (Kubernetes, operators, orchestration)- System modernization and scalability for business-critical systems- Developer productivity, tooling, and AI-enabled workflowsI’m currently open to opportunities in Backend / Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or Developer Productivity roles—especially teams building impactful systems and modern engineering platforms.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   IBM

   Nov 2024 — Present

   Organization- Contributions: • Architected and rebuilt the Aspera Enterprise Kubernetes Operator from a monolithic design into a modular, phase-based architecture using Go—reducing system complexity by 60% and establishing a scalable long-term platform foundation.• Authored full architectural documentation including workflow diagrams, decision trees, troubleshooting guides, and upgrade strategies—becoming the onboarding and system-of-record reference for future development.• Built production-grade Go and Bash CLI tools to replace fragmented manual workflows, adding interactive prompts, intelligent validation, error recovery, and user-friendly UX features that reduced deployment failures and support load.• Designed and maintained the team’s CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), Makefile automation, Docker builds, and multi-registry workflows, eliminating manual release steps and improving deployment reliability.• Created a local development framework enabling developers to deploy, test, and debug the operator without waiting for CI builds—accelerating iteration speed for the entire team.

Education

• UC Irvine

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2012 — 2015

• South China University of Technology

  Bachelor's Degree, Biotechnology

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Vhdl
• Mips Assembly
• Git
• Html
• Android Sdk
• Jenkins
• Sql
• Xpath
• Github
• Python
• Photoshop
• Manderin
• C++
• Psexec
• Json
• Matlab
• Java
• Computer Network Operations
• Putty
• Cantonese
• C#
• .net
• Windows
• Bash
• Regular Expressions