I’m Tao Liu, a senior AI-focused backend engineer who designs and builds scalable ML systems powering real-world automation across finance, manufacturing, IoT, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Python-based backends, distributed architectures, and GPU-accelerated inference, using FastAPI, Django, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kafka, and Kubernetes to deliver high-performance, reliable services. I enjoy turning complex business workflows into production-ready AI tools that improve accuracy, reduce operational load, and accelerate AI adoption. I’ve led end-to-end data pipelines, feature stores, model-serving layers, and experimentation-to-production workflows that shorten iteration cycles from weeks to days while maintaining strong security, testing, and reliability.

I’m Tao Liu, a senior AI-focused backend engineer who designs and builds scalable ML systems powering real-world automation across finance, manufacturing, IoT, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Python-based backends, distributed architectures, and GPU-accelerated inference, using FastAPI, Django, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kafka, and Kubernetes to deliver high-performance, reliable services. I enjoy turning complex business workflows into production-ready AI tools that improve accuracy, reduce operational load, and accelerate AI adoption. I’ve led end-to-end data pipelines, feature stores, model-serving layers, and experimentation-to-production workflows that shorten iteration cycles from weeks to days while maintaining strong security, testing, and reliability.

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I’m Tao Liu, a senior AI-focused backend engineer who designs and builds scalable ML systems powering real-world automation across finance, manufacturing, IoT, and consumer platforms. I specialize in Python-based backends, distributed architectures, and GPU-accelerated inference, using FastAPI, Django, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kafka, and Kubernetes to deliver high-performance, reliable services.

I enjoy turning complex business workflows into production-ready AI tools that improve accuracy, reduce operational load, and accelerate AI adoption. I’ve led end-to-end data pipelines, feature stores, model-serving layers, and experimentation-to-production workflows that shorten iteration cycles from weeks to days while maintaining strong security, testing, and reliability.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Frontend Engineer at Genometec
March 31, 2020 - March 31, 2020
Pioneered a React.js-based data visualization tool handling 500,000+ patient records; implemented mobile-first layouts with Flexbox and CSS Grid; translated UI/UX designs from Figma into responsive components with WCAG 2.1 accessibility; improved frontend performance by 35% via lazy loading, code splitting, and webpack optimizations; refactored 15,000+ lines of legacy jQuery/inline styles into modular Vue/React components; set up event tracking with Google Tag Manager to gather 5,000+ data points for insights.
Full Stack Engineer at Airway Medix
September 30, 2023 - September 30, 2023
Deployed scalable backend services using Node.js and Express to handle real-time data and high user traffic; fortified legacy PHP/Laravel code, reducing vulnerabilities; integrated Shopify APIs to sync orders, inventory, and customer data; optimized MySQL queries and implemented caching to boost backend performance; automated workflows between Shopify and internal ERPs, saving admin time; built RESTful and GraphQL APIs to support frontend apps and mobile platforms.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at CHISELL
July 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Shopify theme development using bespoke Liquid code, upholding brand aesthetics and UX best practices; built scalable backend services with Node.js/Express; integrated WordPress CMS (Elementor/Beaver Builder) for marketing experiences; powered real-time analytics dashboards for CHISELL’s commerce operations; implemented headless CMS integrations and custom RESTful APIs in Node.js; supported storefronts and internal tools for 10+ brand sites.
Frontend Engineer at Genometec, Poland
March 1, 2020 - March 1, 2020
Led the development of a React.js-based data visualization tool handling 500,000+ patient records; implemented mobile-first layouts with Flexbox and CSS Grid; translated UI/UX designs from Figma/Adobe XD into accessible, responsive components (WCAG 2.1); improved frontend performance by 35% via lazy loading, code splitting, and Webpack; migrated legacy jQuery/inline styles to modular Vue/React components; set up detailed event tracking with Google Tag Manager to measure adoption and drive iterative design improvements; collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven insights.
Full Stack Engineer at Airway Medix, Poland
September 30, 2020 - September 30, 2020
Deployed scalable backend services with Node.js and Express to handle real-time data and high user traffic; fortified legacy PHP/Laravel codebase reducing SQL injection vulnerabilities and improving performance; integrated Shopify APIs to sync orders, inventory, and customer data with internal tools; optimized MySQL queries with caching; automated workflows between Shopify and internal ERPs; deployed RESTful and GraphQL APIs to support frontend apps and mobile platforms with secure, low-latency data access.
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
February 1, 2021 - November 1, 2025
Engineered large-scale AI and backend systems using Python, FastAPI, Django, and event-driven microservices to support multimodal ML workloads across GPU/CPU clusters. Reduced inference latency by 48% and maintained 99.99% service availability through dynamic batching, distributed caching, and autoscaling strategies spanning Kubernetes, Redis, and AWS EKS. Architected an enterprise-grade ML infrastructure enabling ingestion, preprocessing, validation, and feature-store hydration for image, text, and behavioral datasets. Leveraged PyTorch DataPipes, Kinesis, S3, and Kafka to streamline experimentation-to-production workflows, accelerating model iteration cycles from weekly to daily and enabling operational AI with significantly lower friction.
Software Engineer at Solar Analytics
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Integrated advanced AI-automation modules into backend systems to support conversational diagnostics, device-condition reasoning, alerting, and automated guidance flows. Delivered a 38% reduction in customer-support workload and built AI-powered incident-reporting, ETL infrastructure with Kinesis, Lambda, TimescaleDB, and dashboards, enabling faster field resolution and improved reliability.
Software Engineer at Tyro Payments
June 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Integrated AI-assisted automation agents into backend financial systems, built NLP-driven incident-reporting and follow-up prompting, designed scalable ETL pipelines with Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and secured PCI-DSS-compliant integration for AI-assisted decisioning at scale.
Software Engineer at Qualcomm
September 1, 2016 - May 1, 2018
Integrated AI-assisted diagnostic utilities into Python-based automation pipelines to summarize logs, detect anomalies, and recommend investigations; built multi-stage ETL for 200GB+ telemetry daily; implemented distributed task scheduling and orchestration layers to accelerate firmware verification and debugging.
Software Engineer at Intersect Australia Pty
May 1, 2015 - August 1, 2016
Built RESTful backend services using Python, Django, and Node.js; migrated legacy systems to Django; implemented containerized CI/CD pipelines with Docker/Jenkins; strengthened data integrity and tooling to align simulation outputs with ML predictions, improving verification workflows.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University College Cork
September 1, 2014 - July 1, 2017
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University College Cork
September 1, 2014 - July 1, 2017
Shopify Theme Development Training (bespoke Liquid code, UX best practices) at CHISELL
October 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Master’s Degree in Computer Science at UNSW
January 1, 2012 - May 1, 2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering at Beihang University
October 1, 2008 - June 1, 2012

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Other, Financial Services, Manufacturing