About

Rong Liu is an experienced Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in large distributed systems, full-stack agile life cycle software development, and in-depth knowledge in PHP, Python, and JavaScript. Currently working as a Software Engineer II at Wayfair, Rong is responsible for developing and maintaining a robust and containerized system that keeps track of day-to-day incidents happening with sales of furniture such as return, cancellation, and missing. He has also developed new web pages in ReactJS that thousands of furniture vendors use to interact with millions of individual furniture rejections. Rong has improved the performance of after-order processing by switching over from a table-based queue to Kafka and integrating with Aerospike cache to reduce redundant calculation. He has also contributed to the initial development of the API test suite using PyTest that increased development and deployment speed by 50% and reduced the need for manual regression and integration testing during release cycles. Prior to Wayfair, Rong worked as a Software Engineer at Softlayer, an IBM company, where he worked primarily in PHP on an accounting focus system responsible for accurately and efficiently billing for cloud server usage and bookkeeping cloud service financial transactions. He also developed the accounting metric system that utilizes InfluxDB and Grafana dashboard to monitor critical metrics of cloud ordering and billing systems and ultimately improved customer experience. Rong has also worked as a Software Engineer at Netscout, where he worked as a QE Lead in full Agile development life cycle on Java applications that monitor the KPI of mobile and internet traffic in customer networks. He collaborated closely with developers and product managers at different phases of the project cycle to ensure correct implementation, usability, and functionality based on the project requirements and specifications. Rong holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is proficient in Software Engineering, testing, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Kafka, integration, Web, ReactJS, product management, and Mobile. Rong is a dedicated and detail-oriented Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high-quality software that meets customer needs.