Gavin Liu

Founder @ BudgetPixel AI

About

SRE experienced with designing highly scalable infrastructures for scalable applications with great observability and monitoring. Software developer who design and write scalable web services. I call myself backend full stack. I am also known as the bottleneck terminator. I am not a friend with outages, team with me see less outages over time. We keep it away by establishing the best outage handling practice. I also love macro economics.

Country

United States

City

Marietta

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Kubernetes, Postgres, Systems Design, Java, Programming, Algorithms, C, Data Analysis, C++, Research, XML, Databases, Python, Data Mining, SQL, Linux, Teaching, Computer Science, Big Data, Machine Learning

Experience

Founder

BudgetPixel AI

2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

United States

Founder, BudgetPixel AI, a platform dedicated to empowering designers, artists, musician and digital content creators

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Flock

2022-4 - 2025-8 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

SRE with strong expertise in observability, stability, and scalability SRE with extensive development exp. Unique ability to proactively locate bottlenecks and also great ability in conquering them.

Team Lead (Principle backend engineer)

UserIQ

2021-4 - 2022-4 · 1 yr 1 mo

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Engineering Design, develop and own UserIQ data Integrations with 3rd CRMs including Salesforce, Hubspot, Zendesk, etc.

Senior Software Engineer

UserIQ

2019-5 - 2021-4 · 2 yrs

United States

Software Engineer II

Cox Automotive

2018-3 - 2019-5 · 1 yr 3 mos

Greater Atlanta Area

Working on Cox Enterprise Data Platform.

Software Engineer II

CareerBuilder

2016-8 - 2018-3 · 1 yr 8 mos

Norcross, GA

Software Enginner II in Data Science Application Development. Develop, maintain and improve scalable, reliable and cost efficient web applications.

Research Assistant

Georgia State University

2011-8 - 2016-8 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Atlanta, GA

Research Interest: Social networks, data mining, machine learning. For more, please check http://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~gliu6/ for research topics and publications.

Lecturer

Georgia State University

2011-8 - 2016-6 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Atlanta

As a Teacher: Teaching CS class CSc2320 fundation of website development Teaching CS class CSc2301 Non-major programming (Python) with good student evaluations. Also play as TA and LA.

Data Engineer (Intern & No-Cost Coop )

AT&T

2014-5 - 2015-11 · 1 yr 7 mos

Bedminster, NJ and Atlanta, GA

Description: Research & Develop an Application aiming to monitor large-scale data center traffic, alert traffic anomaly and provide data visualization. Responsibility: * Explore sampled packets of data center through statistics analysis to seek potential insights. * Transform data from MySQL raw (unstructured) table to efficient “structured” data through data extracting, VLAN mining and indexing. * Traffic anomaly detection through advanced correlation analysis. * Tenant (VLAN) traffic profiling: Mining the tenant traffic (VLAN) characteristics and cluster tenants. * Develop an internal online Query System (in Java) to provide data visualization. Fulfillment: The tool can efficiently help Cloud Service users and researchers to analyze traffic flowing through a data center and assist with configuring and performing operations on a data center.

Software Engineer Internship

Accelet Corporation

2010-9 - 2011-5 · 9 mos

Beijing, China

Proposed and designed a web application to retrieve marketing info based on transaction records at Menglu.com. includes: • Indepent user management system desin and implementation. • Design APIs for Menglu.com including data mining APIs and API to transmit data.