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Li Liu

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Director of Engineering at Zilliz
📍 Redwood City, California, United States

Li Liu is the Director of Engineering at Zilliz, where he leads the development of the Milvus vector database. His expertise spans vector search, distributed systems, and stream processing for advertising platforms. He holds a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

He has a keen interest in the future evolution of vector databases, exploring characteristics beyond their current applications in probabilistic search.

He once solved a complex debugging challenge by analyzing a memory address that appeared to be noise but was actually a reversed string, revealing the root cause.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Redwood City, California, United States
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Vector Databases
As the engineering lead for the Milvus project, he actively contributes to and writes about the future development and unique characteristics of vector database technology.
Sparse Vector Search
He recently authored a blog series discussing the application of sparse vectors and models to improve the quality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Director of Engineering
Zilliz
8-2023 - 10-2024
Principal Software Engineer
Zilliz
5-2022 - 8-2023
Staff Software Engineer
Zilliz
12-2021 - 5-2022
Senior Software Engineer
Meta
6-2020 - 12-2021
Software Engineer
Meta
In the press

Media appearances

Podcast: Using AI to Supercharge Data‑Driven Applications with Zilliz. Featured in Zilliz Blog
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Education
2017 - 2018
Master
Carnegie Mellon University
2016 - 2017
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Carnegie Mellon University
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