David Liao, Software Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
David Liao

Software Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since February 26, 2019
David is a leading engineer with years of experience working at multiple hyper-growth startups. He has led and contributed to engineering teams for both infrastructure and software. Over the years, David has developed software, managed cloud infrastructure, and automating deployments. He also has expertise in AWS/GCP, Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
David is now available for hire

Portfolio

  • Apollo.io
    DigitalOcean, Digital, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Redis, MongoDB, CircleCI...
  • Datanyze
    Node.js, PHP, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Memcached...
  • RealNetworks
    Git, Jenkins, FFmpeg, PHP, MongoDB, Node.js

Experience

Location

San Francisco, CA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio Code, Cloud, Git

The most amazing...

...software I've built is a CRM enrichment product that was also integrated with multiple CRMs and all of the company's data points.

Employment

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2018 - PRESENT
    Apollo.io
    • Migrated all of the resources from Azure Cloud to Google Cloud Platform.
    • Managed and led all of the infrastructure initiatives and personnel.
    • Built out a CI pipeline for continuous testing and deployments.
    • Defined all of the infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.
    • Migrated and manage multi-terabyte MongoDB and Elasticsearch databases.
    • Developed a number of features in the main web app.
    Technologies: DigitalOcean, Digital, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Redis, MongoDB, CircleCI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform
  • Director of Engineering

    2015 - 2018
    Datanyze
    • Managed and led the engineering teams locally and all remote offices.
    • Rewrote and reengineered web crawlers' code and architecture to support crawling millions of website daily.
    • Solved key scalability and reliability issues.
    • Created multiple microservices to support our APIs.
    • Created a CRM enrichment product that was updating millions of records a day.
    Technologies: Node.js, PHP, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Memcached, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MongoDB, Ansible
  • Software Development Engineer

    2015 - 2015
    RealNetworks
    • Expanded the media player support to other websites.
    • Built an internal content repository to support the QA team for finding test content.
    • Worked on generating new metrics to feed into dashboards.
    Technologies: Git, Jenkins, FFmpeg, PHP, MongoDB, Node.js

Experience

  • Apollo Azure to GCP Migration

    I independently migrated all services and resources from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform. This involved multi-terabyte databases and web applications; in addition, it was completed in two weeks with less than ten minutes of downtime.

  • Web Crawlers

    I rewrote the code to reduce complexity as well as increase efficiency. Next, I rearchitected the deployment to further increase throughput. At the end of the day, the crawlers were crawling over 20 million websites a day on a very low budget for servers.

  • CRM Enrichment

    I created a CRM enrichment product that pushes the company's data that was collected from my web crawlers and other sources to various CRMs. I initially integrated with Salesforce and redesigned the code to quickly expanded to HubSpot and Marketo.

Skills

  • Languages

    JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Bash, Python
  • Tools

    Terraform, Ansible, Google Stackdriver, CircleCI, Jenkins, Git
  • Platforms

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Heroku, Visual Studio Code
  • Storage

    MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Memcached
  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.js
  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Salesforce API, Node.js, FFmpeg, Facebook API, Google API
  • Paradigms

    Agile Software Development
  • Other

    Sprint Planning, Cloud, Digital

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