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I am Meng qi Liu, a Backend Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 8 years owning distributed systems at scale by leading design decisions, operating multi-AZ microservices, and owning availability end-to-end. My background is in AWS-native architectures, event-driven systems, and observability-driven operations. I work across Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and the full AWS stack, and I enjoy building scalable, reliable systems and mentoring teammates.…I am Meng qi Liu, a Backend Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 8 years owning distributed systems at scale by leading design decisions, operating multi-AZ microservices, and owning availability end-to-end. My background is in AWS-native architectures, event-driven systems, and observability-driven operations. I work across Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and the full AWS stack, and I enjoy building scalable, reliable systems and mentoring teammates.

Meng qi Liu

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I am Meng qi Liu, a Backend Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 8 years owning distributed systems at scale by leading design decisions, operating multi-AZ microservices, and owning availability end-to-end. My background is in AWS-native architectures, event-driven systems, and observability-driven operations. I work across Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and the full AWS stack, and I enjoy building scalable, reliable systems and mentoring teammates.…I am Meng qi Liu, a Backend Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 8 years owning distributed systems at scale by leading design decisions, operating multi-AZ microservices, and owning availability end-to-end. My background is in AWS-native architectures, event-driven systems, and observability-driven operations. I work across Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and the full AWS stack, and I enjoy building scalable, reliable systems and mentoring teammates.

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I am Meng qi Liu, a Backend Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I have 9+ years of engineering experience, including 8 years owning distributed systems at scale by leading design decisions, operating multi-AZ microservices, and owning availability end-to-end.

My background is in AWS-native architectures, event-driven systems, and observability-driven operations. I work across Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and the full AWS stack, and I enjoy building scalable, reliable systems and mentoring teammates.

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Work Experience

Cloud Development Engineer at McAfee

July 1, 2020 - August 1, 2025

Experience Cloud Development Engineer at McAfee overseeing end-to-end delivery of 10+ microservices supporting 1M+ DAU and 5M+ daily requests. Architected event-driven microservices using Kafka to enable asynchronous processing and owned production reliability via SLIs/SLOs with Grafana-driven alerting and incident response. Designed scalable data models with PostgreSQL and Redis, balancing latency and consistency. Deployed and operated the system on Kubernetes, managing service lifecycle and scaling. Defined REST APIs and drove cross-team integrations using TypeScript. Also led the SASN multi-AZ Go microservice project with low operational error rates and longer latency, delivering MVPs for EO/L products with a focus on idempotent data ingestion, adopting Prometheus for incident detection and reliability, and mentoring engineers through architecture reviews.

Software Development Engineer at McAfee

July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2020

McAfee Site Advisor: Maintained full ownership of backend services; built full-stack web services with Python and JavaScript, containerized with Docker, and deployed on AWS. Maintained functionality across multiple Windows releases and resolved C++ issues.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.com

August 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015

Constructed asynchronous API calls for AWS services using Java.