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Liyuk/README.md

🪄 About me

I turn complex business goals into scalable systems,
strong engineering organizations, and repeatable execution.

🏢  Former Senior Staff Engineering Manager at TikTok with 10+ years of experience, including 8+ years at ByteDance, building global consumer and commerce products
🏗️  Focused on platform scale, reliability, data-driven product decisions, measurable business outcomes, and AI-enabled engineering productivity
📍  San Francisco Bay Area

✨ Selected technical impact

  • Led architecture and end-to-end engineering for multi-market commerce systems spanning consumer transactions, merchant and marketing platforms, event attribution, and internal operations
  • Modernized mobile and web architecture and developer infrastructure, improving transaction performance and engineering throughput across multiple business domains
  • Led cross-stack transaction and supply reliability architecture across mobile, web, and backend systems, covering data consistency, observability, and incident governance
  • Led an AI engineering strategy spanning knowledge systems, agent platforms, E2E delivery, quality, and operations across frontend, backend, and QA teams

🧭 Leadership scope

  • Technical strategy — Defined mobile and frontend technical direction for a multi-market commerce business, translating market and transaction goals into roadmaps, architecture decisions, and reusable platform investments.
  • Organization design — Built and led a four-team engineering organization of nearly 50 people across multiple locations, establishing clear management and domain ownership from strategy through execution.
  • Capacity and prioritization — Owned resource allocation and delivery priorities across market launches, transaction-critical flows, reliability, and platform foundations, balancing near-term business commitments with long-term architecture.
  • Talent systems — Served on an engineering promotion committee at TikTok and led workforce planning, hiring, leveling, and succession development for a multi-team engineering organization.

🧭 Areas of expertise

Product & engineering leadership · Global consumer and commerce products · Multi-market technical strategy · Organization design · Data-informed prioritization

Engineering systems · Commerce architecture · Transaction and supply systems · Merchant and marketing platforms · Event attribution and data pipelines · Mobile / Web platforms · Cross-stack reliability and observability · Developer productivity and CI/CD · AI-enabled SDLC

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