John Liu

I'm John Liu, a full-stack engineer and engineering leader who has spent over a decade building products, managing engineering teams, and sharing what I've learned.

My career started with internships at a real estate firm and Taiwan's largest travel group, and I also worked at a top-3 global cosmetics company helping maintain their web systems. I then joined the Manila Economic and Cultural Office as an IT Specialist, independently managing the organization's websites. From there I moved through full-stack engineering roles in fintech and travel tech startups, building web services in PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and C#. In 2019, I co-founded Bili Digital as CTO, growing a team of 10+ to build property management products from scratch — serving Taiwan's largest rental management company on the B2B side and acquiring 10,000+ app users on the B2C side, while maintaining 50+ daily deployments on GCP.

Along the way I began stepping into Team Leader roles, taking on more responsibility for people and delivery alongside hands-on development. In 2019, a friend and I co-founded Bili Digital, where I served as CTO and scaled the team to 10+ people — building property management products from the ground up, landing Taiwan's largest rental management company as a B2B client, and growing to 10,000+ B2C app users, all while keeping error rates below 1% with 50+ daily GCP deployments.

I joined Netskope in 2022 as a Full Stack Engineer and was promoted twice since. I now serve as Engineering Manager, leading the Taiwan team on the security platform's UI Admin Portal — covering the Steering, Enterprise Browser, SWG, RBI, IPS, and Data Lineage product lines. Within a year I grew the Taiwan team by recruiting 12 engineers. Beyond delivery, I've actively worked to build a strong engineering culture through internal tech talks and co-organizing the Global Hackathon.

Beyond my day job, I regularly speak at conferences including COSCUP, MOPCON, JSDC, and DevOpsDays, and have created online courses and mentored engineers through HiSKIO, NTC.im, AiWorks, and iSpan.