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<img src="/images/about.jpeg" alt="Eric Liu" width="300" style="float: left; margin-right: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; border-radius: 8px;"/>

Hi, I'm **Eric Liu**.

I am a **Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager (TLM)** at **Google**, based in Sunnyvale, CA.

My work focuses on **Infrastructure Performance and Customer Engineering**, specifically for **GPUs and TPUs**. I lead teams that bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI hardware and the latest ML models (like Gemini), ensuring optimal performance and reliability at Google Cloud scale. I thrive in the ambiguous space where hardware constraints meet software ambition—whether it's debugging race conditions across thousands of chips or designing API surfaces for next-gen models.

Beyond the code, I maintain this "digital garden" where I document my projects and learnings. It serves as my second brain, capturing everything from technical deep dives to random musings. I believe in **"learning in public"**—so you'll find unpolished notes on troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters alongside recipes I'm refining. It's not just a blog; it's a living repository of my curiosity.

### Personal Interests

I'm a tinkerer at heart, whether digital or physical:

*   **Homelab**: Kubernetes, Proxmox, and self-hosted services. I love over-engineering my home network.
*   **DIY & Jeep**: Maintaining and modifying my Jeep, and general DIY projects.
*   **Cooking**: experimenting with new recipes and techniques.

Welcome to my corner of the internet.
