Yu Liu Email Address

Chairman of the Board

Pinterest is a social bookmarking site with a virtual pinboard interface that visually showcases the user's interests.

Familiar with large scale data processing infrastructure technologies, including scope/dryad/cosmos/autopilot from Microsoft, which are similar to mapreduce/gfs/bigtable and hadoop; experienced in building/optimizing/shipping infrastructure for large scale data mining applications in industrial data center scale. Familiar with search engine technologies, including index generate, update, encode/decode, query parse/compile/serve and ranking platform; experienced in building/optimizing/shipping industrial web search engine. Familiar with scalable network service architecture, experienced in building network/rpc library; interested in collecting and researching web architecture of world class popular sites. Solid background on distributed system fundamentals, including distributed time, replication, failure detection and toleration. Knowledge of fundamental data mining and machine learning algorithms, experienced in parallelizing such algorithms in large scale data center. Knowledge of database internals, including storage, query execution and transaction. Specialties: Search Platform/Infrastructure, Distributed System and Database