Tim Liang is a Software Engineer with extensive experience in machine learning infrastructure and database management, currently working at Figma since August 2020. As a founding member of the databases group, Tim played a key role in addressing scaling challenges during Figma's hypergrowth and led a team of engineers to implement essential systems, including online database partitioning and horizontal sharding. Previously, Tim held software engineering roles at industry leaders such as Google and Instagram, focusing on ads serving, Chrome rendering, and machine learning infrastructure. Tim began a career in technology as a Summer Research Fellow at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University, where Tim contributed to projects involving distributed drone swarms. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, earned in 2020.
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