Lily Liu

Software Engineering Intern

Jan. 2020 – Apr. 2020 (4 months)

Redmond, Washington

• Developed and shipped a scalable and extensible framework that allows millions of monthly active users to define and interact with new custom data types in the Common Data Service platform, reducing development time for a data type from months to minutes
• Built enterprise-grade core infrastructure, with special focus on data storage, retrieval, and reliability
• Defined models, contracts, and schemas to support existing types, new data types, and various complex scenarios

Explore Intern

May 2019 – Aug. 2019 (4 months)

Redmond, Washington

• Built a robust data pipeline at enterprise scale to reliably process hundreds of millions of telemetry logs
• Extensive experience writing efficient functions to query large, complex data sets while ensuring data integrity and fine-tuning queries to optimize performance
• Strong ability to troubleshoot data inconsistencies and identify and resolve the root cause of the problem
• Designed, developed, and deployed RESTful APIs built with .NET Core in a continuous integration environment

Machine Learning Developer

Sep. 2018 – Apr. 2019 (8 months)

Waterloo, Ontario

• Trained convolutional neural networks for real-time, multi-class object detection for self-driving cars using YOLOv3
• Conducted statistical analysis using Python and NumPy to fine-tune models and accurately match objects
• Researched and employed new techniques like artificial data synthesis to generate huge quantities of high-quality data to supplement sparse or missing data

Full-Stack Developer

May 2018 – Aug. 2018 (4 months)

Toronto, Ontario

• Built applications with machine learning functionality by collecting and sanitizing data, training neural networks, and continuously iterating to improve accuracy
• Developed a community-based platform using Vue.js that fosters collaboration to develop innovative solutions
• Facilitated the company-wide deployment of the web platform and hosted workshops to share my learnings