Research engineering2025–Present
SUMOGen
An AI-assisted traffic scenario generator and evaluation workflow for autonomous-driving simulation.
- SUMO
- Agentic AI
- Simulation
Systems, infrastructure, and product engineering
Hello, I'm Max Liu.
I build reliable systems with a playful edge.
I'm a systems and infrastructure software engineer at LinkedIn, focused on distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, and robotics.
01 / About
Engineer, builder, and curious generalist.
Based in the Bay AreaUMich CS + Data Science
I care about the full path from a good idea to a dependable system.
I'm Max (Yinghao) Liu, a University of Michigan graduate in Computer Science and Data Science. I currently work as a systems and infrastructure software engineer at LinkedIn, where I focus on making complex systems reliable, understandable, and useful.
Outside of work, I gravitate toward robotics, visual design, photography, mountain biking, and ambitious projects with thoughtful people.
Currently interested in
- Distributed systems
- AI/ML infrastructure
- Robotics
- Playful interfaces
02 / Selected work
Projects built to move beyond the prototype.
Three projects that best represent how I approach systems, infrastructure, and product engineering.
Distributed systems2026
Raft Key-Value Store
A fault-tolerant distributed key-value service built on the Raft consensus algorithm.
- Go
- Raft
- Distributed systems
ML research2024
Strategic Data Sampling for LLMs
A data-selection study that retained full-dataset-level evaluation performance with a fraction of the training set.
- Llama 3.1
- LoRA
- Data selection
More projects
Earlier experiments, research, and hackathon work.
03 / Contact
Let's build something useful.
I'm always interested in thoughtful conversations about systems, infrastructure, robotics, and ambitious technical ideas.