Yong Liu
About
Yong Liu is from Petaluma, California, United States. Yong works in the following industries: "Financial Services". Yong is currently VP, Head of Product & Tech, China at PayPal, located in San Jose. In Yong's previous role as a VP, Digital Engineering at Western Union, Yong worked in San Francisco Bay Area until Dec 2018. Prior to joining Western Union, Yong was a CTO at KEY Concierge and held the position of CTO at Austin, Texas Area. Prior to that, Yong was a VP Engineering at Blackhawk Network, based in Pleasanton, CA from Apr 2014 to Dec 2016. Yong started working as Senior Director, Software Engineering at Blackhawk Network in Pleasanton, CA in Aug 2011. From May 2009 to Aug 2011, Yong was Director, Software Engineering at Blackhawk Network, based in Pleasanton, CA. Prior to that, Yong was a VP Engineering at Divvio Inc., based in Menlo Park, CA from Oct 2006 to Feb 2009. Yong started working as Lead Architect at Marketlive in Jun 2005.
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Yong Liu's current jobs
Yong Liu's past jobs
Led Western Union's digital engineering team on - Digital Global Expansion: Within one year, launched digital money transfer services through wu.com and WU mobile apps for our customers in the following countries to send money to their families, friends, business partners in 200 countries and territories in the globe! Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Malaysia, Singapore, HK, with India, Japan and many more to follow. - Digital Partnership: Enabled our partners (Banks, Financial institutes, Agencies) to offer Money transfer services to their customer through Western Union's APIs and White label service. - Omni experience - Pay for Amazon orders at a Western Union's retail location! Complete KYC online and then send money at a Brick & Mortar location! We are all about meeting our customer's money transfer needs, anytime and anywhere in the world. - Digital Technology Transformation. - Re-architectured digital API platform - Adopted ReactNative for Mobile app and Angular 6 for Web - Cloud transformation - Last but should be first - Security and Compliance - Russia in country processing - GDPR - various security related initiatives!
- Engineering head for all Blackhawk’s core systems including Acquiring Switch, Settlement, BI & Reporting, Digital APIs, Supply chain and ERP, Open loop and closed loop card processing platforms, card exchange (Cardpool), Consumer facing websites, IVRs, and Giftcards.com. These systems were responsible for 90%+ of Blackhawk’s revenue. - Managing an organization with 250 Software Engineers, QAs, and software and cloud Architects located in Pleasanton, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, and Shanghai. - Participating in technical due diligence in Blackhawk acquisitions and joint venture investments. - Continue to work on integrations between recent acquisitions and core systems. Proud in - Delivery: Impeccable records of on time, on budget delivery. - Transformation: Championed and executed the movement from traditional data centers to the AWS cloud. - Leadership: Recruited and led a technology organization of 250 employees and contractors in multiple geo-locations. - Innovation: Championed and sponsored the annual Hawk Hackathon that attracted more than 100 engineers to participate. - Compliance & Security: Achieved PCI and SOX compliance under tight timeline. Detected and defended DDOS attacks and account take over frauds.
- Launched Blackhawk's first generation of issuance platform that processed both open loop Visa Gift and GPR products in US, UK, and Canda, as well as closed loop processing for Safeway which was migrated from SVS. - Developed and launched APIs that enabled digital distribution partners such as Amazon, Chase, Capital One, Paypal, Samsung, United Airlines, Coinstar and Google to sell electronic gift cards to their consumers. These APIs cover entire prepaid card life cycle - activations, redemptions, reload, and digital wallet capabilities.
- Managed BHN's OLTP (Online transaction processing) systems, which include card issuance, processing, and acquiring switch systems. - Managed Tooling systems. - Uber scrum master. - Established a sustaining engineering organization
- Built onsite engineering organization from the ground up. - Established outsourcing teams in China and Argentina, which resulted in a 60% reduction in developing and operating cost. - Created the largest multimedia content index in the world at the time. - Launched comprehensive multimedia analysis tool set that included audio transcoding, header meta-data generation, speech to text, OCR, and image recognition. - Actively involved in demos, presentations, and due diligence with Venture Capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Allegis Capital.
Mentoring Clent Service Tech Leads. Estimating/validating hour estimates for project customizations. Provide design review to all projects. Documenting recommended process improvements. Ownership of departmental adherence to defined standards. Accountability departmental adherence to defined standards. In line for internal escalations. Provide 360 feedback on team member performance.
Overseeing projects from technical perspectives. Creating business requirement documentations. Creating technical specs/implementation guides for projects. Providing code reviews. Participating high level programming.